It is hard to fully explain my reaction to this play. The acting was wonderful, the material was difficult, and it was not hard to empathize with the characters going through their situations. However, it was kind of hard trying to visualize what they were talking about because, I was not alive during the 60's or 70's. It was emotionally exhausting at times yet; still there were moments of sarcastic humor. I've never been to a play where there was so much dialogue and so little interaction between characters to produce conflict. .
The actors did an excellent job portraying these difficult characters. It is hard to believe that they were the same people that I see walking around campus now. Each one seemed to have spent countless hours studying the ins and outs of the characters. I know it had to be hard for them to play such roles for the same reason it was hard for me to visualize the time period. Still, they did not skip a beat and were very convincing; bringing their characters to a point that no written prose could fully capture.
The characters were filled with so much passion and emotions that it was not hard to empathize with them and almost get caught up in their lives. I found myself wanting to be in the jungle to see what Marc saw. I wanted to hold Rona as she went through her accounts of Kennedy. I became passionate and dispassionate for the marches. I could see these droves of Marylyn Monroe wannabe's getting suckered into false hope by men who will do anything for action. I felt sorrow for Sparger, no one should have had to endure what he went through. All of the characters touch a part of everyone just because I think all of us have known people like them just maybe not to the same extremes. It is like they were over-exaggerations of all the false and over zealous movements going on in the 60's. Not to say that they weren't all fighting for just causes, they just had no organization or focus.
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Jacqueline Kennedy was born in 1929 in South Hampton, New York. ... Kennedy. ... Kennedy Jr. ... She was beautiful, was married to the president, and had two beautiful children. ... After JFK's death she moved to Manhattan to raise her children in a normal environment. ...
The second of nine children, Kennedy was reared in a family that demanded intense physical and intellectual competition among the siblings - the family's touch football games at their Hyannis Port retreat later became legendary - and was schooled in the religious teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and the political precepts of the Democratic Party. ... They established trust funds for their children that guaranteed lifelong financial independence. ... In the fall of 1941 Kennedy joined the U.S. ... John Kennedy was dead, but the Kennedy mystique was still alive. ... Jacqueline Kenned...
He suffered from a bad back, and was unable to lift anything, even his little children. ... After a long succession of elderly presidents, much of the nation was charmed by the images of small children running about the White House. ... LIFE took many pictures of John Kennedy and his two children, which had helped his character look a lot better than it was before. ... It was not only a political place but a place where his children spent time with their father and had fun and enjoyed themselves. ... John F Kennedy used photographs to manipulate the American people, to show them that a young...
While he was working on building up the family fortune, Rose was busy raising their nine children. ... She used a very precise recording method of documenting all of her children's health dilemmas on index cards. ... Rose's happiest years were devoted to raising her children. ... Kennedy, Jr. ... She instilled the values and political savvy that all of her children possessed. ...
Early Years John Fitzgerald Kennedy, known as JFK, was born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was the second child of Joseph Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy, who would eventually have nine children--JFK's older brother Joe Jr., and his younger siblings Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice, Patricia, Robert and Edward. ... In 1949, he established trust funds for his children, guaranteeing each ten million dollars. ... Joe Sr. vowed that his children would conquer such forces. ... s business kept him away from home for long stretches, but he was a formidable presence in his children...
Kennedy that is ignored. ... There was always competition between the children to please John's father, Joseph Kennedy Sr. ... Kennedy. ... Kennedy had a long list of marital infidelities. ... Kennedy was a good president but not a great president. ...
He was the son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy as well as the second oldest of nine other siblings. ... At any early age, Kennedy's father enrolled all of his children in swimming and sailing activities. ... About a year after the attack, Joseph Kennedy Jr., Kennedy's brother, died when his plane exploded in August 1944. ... Caroline Kennedy was born on November 27, 1957 a healthy baby girl, and instantly had Kennedy under control. ... Kennedy's Democrat opponent was Hubert Humphrey. ...
Justice Anthony Kennedy Anthony McLeod Kennedy was born on July 23, 1936 in Sacramento, California. The second of his parent's three children, Kennedy grew up in the quietly conservative rural central California region. ... Kennedy's father, Anthony J. ... The Kennedy's have three children, Justin, Gregory, and Kristin, all of whom attended Stanford. ... When Kennedy joined the U.S. ...
