TOM JONES, AN ENGLISH PLAY

YESTERDAY I SAW AN ENGLISH PLAY OUTDOORS BEHIND THE WELLS FARGO CENTER WHERE THEY HAD A LARGE OUTDOOR TENT AND HAD A CHEF MAKING FOOD FOR THE CAST AND A TRUCK WITH BATHROOM FACILITIES FOR THIS CAST. IT WAS A THREE HOUR PLAY AND THE DECIDED TO HOLD IT OUTDOORS TO BE DIFFERENT. TOME JONES WAS THE MAIN CHARACTER AND HE HAD A LARGE ROLE AND LOTS OF ENERGY RUINING AWAY FROM FOLKS WHO ATTACKED HIM WITH SWORDS AND OTHERS WHO PUNCHED HIM.. IT WAS ANNOUNCED AS A ROMANTIC COMEDY.

IT WAS BASED ON A BOOK WRITTEN BY DAVID HAMOND AND THERE WERE ABOUT 12 AQCTORS WHO WERE IN HIGH SCHOOL OR COLLEGE. THEY SEEMED MUCH OLDER THAN THAT. THEY ALL HAD INTERESTING COSTUMES SET TO REPRESENT THE 1700'S. THE MEN WORE CURLY WIGS LIKE GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE WOMEN WORE SOME HAIR PIECES WITH CURLY LOCKS TO MAKE THEM LOOK MORE IN THE VICTORIAN ERA.THEY DANCED SOME ACTS AND IT WAS A COMEDY OF SORTS.

THERE WERE QUITE A FEW FIGHTS GOING ON AS TOM JONES WAS ACCUSED OF BEING THE FATHER OF A YOUNG BABY, AND MAKING A NUISANCE. THIS PLAY IS SET IN 1`750'S . IT HAS FEW PROPS EXCEPT FOR A FEW DRAPES IN AN ACT. THE TEENS WORE WIGS TO MAKE THEM LOOK OLDER - THE MEN WORE WHITE CURLY WIGS AND SOME HAD LONG HAIR, WHILE THE WOMEN WORE FRILLY, CURLY PULLED BACK HAIR AS WELL.

TOM LIVES WITH A VERY KIND WEALTHY LANDOWNER, SQUIRE ALLWORTHY IN WEST COUNTY, ENGLAND. HIS NEIGHBOR'S DAUGHTER, SOPHIA, IS WHO HE IS IN LOVE WITH. HER FATHER OPPOSES THEIR LOVE. MANY OF THE MEN ARE SHOWN DRINKING DIFFERENT TYPES OF ALCOHOL. THE PLOT INCLUDES SEXUAL PROMISCUITY THAT IS AN OLD THEM IN ALL CULTURES. SECONDARY THEMES ARE VIRTUE, HYPOCRISY, AND VILLAINY WITH FORGIVENESS.

IT IS A HIT WITH HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE AUDIENCES. TOM JONES IS A WARD OF SQUIRE ALLWORTHY WHO OWNS A LARGE HOUSE AND LAND. TOM IS IN LOVE WITH HIS NEIGHBOR'S DAUGHTER SOPHIA. BUT SOPHIA'S FATHER HAS ARRANGED FOR HER TO MARRY HIS NEWPHEW. TOM IS BANISHED AND SOPHIA AND HER MAID SET OUT TO FIND HIM. THEY ARE ALL INVOLVED IN VARIOUS CHASE SCENES AND MEET STRANGE CHARACTERS ALONG THE WAY.

SINCE TEH PLAY WAS OUTSIDE THE ACTORS'S MICROPHONES HAD SOME INTERFERENCE WITH THE WIND SO SOME OF THEIR LINES WERE DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND. THERE WERE SOME RIDICULOUS FUNNY SCENES AND ALL IN ALL THE AUDIENCE ENJOYED THEIR PRODUCTION.

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