Contemporary Drama

 This play, Disgraced, seems very similar to another play that I saw in undergrad. I don't remember the name, so please tell me the name if this sounds familiar:  Individual members of a family struggling with their own issues, attempt to convince the other to sell the house in order to make enough money to make up for heavy loses. One is a professor of history, and considering their family is Jewish, releases a book titled "Forgetting the Holocaust" to talk about the ways memoires of the holocaust are weaponized to obfuscate criticizes  against Jews/ the Israeli government. The professor was also cancelled as a result losing his professorship and subsequently blacklisted from work. I do consider the question of elaborating nuance, namely in does elaborating nuance in spaces where things appear black and white. In Amir's case, he presents an anti-communal stance against Islam. In some lights, I think we all play into that community of being so self-critical of your ow...

 Notions of freedom, and layers of freedom, is something that I found most interesting in Gem of the Ocean. Sandra L. Richards lays out how freedom looks different for 3 of the characters in this play.  " Not only is an emphasis on agency uttered repeatedly but also it is apparent that the constitution of freedom changes depending on the historical context. For the older generation, freedom at one point meant emancipation from slavery; for Solly's sister in the post-Reconstruction South, freedom would entail the absence of racial violence and exploitation; for the newly arrived Citizen, freedom means nondiscriminatory, well-paid employment and psychic equilibrium " (Richards, 159).  This plays onto the title, being a reference to a song that is basically one step removed from being used in an Army ad. And yet Wilson's work here seems to ride a tension between a refutation of an advertainment for a national identity, while also promoting an advertainment towards a pan...