Ashton Bowie

September 2, 2017
Freshman
Hamilton
Compare and Contrast Assignment
Professor Duren
 What makes up a good play? Is it the themes, the actors or is it something more? In the

world today blacks and other race suffers with racism, and poverty. Well racial inclusions for the

colored is playing a big part on plays, feminism is a huge role, as well as Broadway. The play

Hamilton is becoming a huge success in the theatre business. This play must be outrageous as the

critics has been going crazy with positive and negative comments about the play. Some saying,

“how completely the show fails to pass the Bechdel test” others saying the play is “breathe

taking “as the tears roll down the audience face’s.

Reading some reviews, I can see that they were some positive but also negative

summaries about the play. I can see that this critic does not like the play using words like

“displacement” and phrases like “what the F**k” and “I’m going to hate it.” Well I guess that

was a first impression, as the writer said” I loved it, it was amazing.” Well in this summary

negative is not negative but on a thin edge of racism as the critic Rebecca Onion ridicule

Broadway about the black activity in the play. Saying “it’s still white history. And no amount of

casting people of color disguises the fact that they’re erasing people of color from the actual

narrative.” For a long time, the play was positively talked about but as Rebecca Onion review

began to raise, the raise of racial inclusions began to raise. As the Broadway play began to face

problems with casting black cast members, as the critics went to disowning the play, Broadway

kept what is was doing as to not caring what the critic ridiculed them about. Rebecca Onion

being told about all the main characters being played by colored she commented back saying

“Yeah, that bothers me a lot.” The critics comments took in as mostly racism is a very negative

intake on the Broadway play. Very to say that the critic did not like the play

Broadway posed an even bigger discussion as they were three new members in

the already ridiculed play as women appeared on the Broadway play. Happy to say these three
women was not an upset as their elegant voices towered through the audience. As the critic Ben

Brantley written “when they open their mouths, the words that tumble out are fervid mix of

contemporary street talk, wild and florid declarations of ambition” oh yes, also saying “the

women voices are elegant phrases from momentous political documents you studied in school,

like Washington’s Farewell Address.” The women were an edge of the sit hitter as the critics

began to love the role of the women in the Broadway play.

In my high school days, I was an exceptional actor as I stared in the plays “a

raisin in the sun” and Martin Luther King Jr. speech “I Have a Dream.” As a sophomore, I

became the face of the school as I began my journey by playing Martin Luther King Jr. acting as

reciting the I Have a Dream speech. Teacher Emily Rogoff stated in comment “It’s so

inspirational to see my students taking this huge risk in front of their peers. This is very

emotional, amazing part of history, seeing their friends act it out is awesome.” Giving that this

was my English teacher I total agree with her. A lot of children is blinded by the importance of

this speech and what Martin Luther King Jr. did for us all. As Trazie Johnson the Theatre teacher

said hoped “we understand where we come from to where we are now and to also understand

that we still have a long way to go.” Mr. Johnson comment is very much legible, colored as a

race are still belittled in society, and still mind enslaved. Seeing young people acting in a play

that teaches you your history empowers the mind of people their age as of people younger and

older.

Negative and positive reviews was brought upon the play Hamilton, but both critics

Rebecca Onion and Ben Brantley were impressed with the play. Not so much in negativity a

little racism but mostly positives gestures of the Hamilton. Rebecca Onion saying, “I loved it”

and Ben Brantley saying, “it really is that good” the overall view of the play was outrageous as
everyone loved it. Broadway mixed racial and feminism in the play Hamilton and I loved it. The

overview of this play is excellent bring a lot of positive and little negative criticism. This play is

very needed in this time being the world is still being categorized by race and gender. Equality is

a big solution to the rights of all races and gender. Critics reviews will bring hardship to the play

but the positive of the criticism is an igniter for Broadway to do more racial and feminism

character select.
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