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A 3 page essay that discusses this play. Timothy's Braun's play "Angelina" is about male adolescence, its angst, its challenges, and its heartbreak, particularly when there are no strong father figures in the teenage boy's home on whom he can rely and on whom he can model his behavior. The cast consists of two teenage boys, Toby and Junior, who have obviously been friends since early childhood. The following examination of this play considers the artistic goals and intentions of the playwright and how well they are accomplished in this play. No additional sources cited.
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behavior. The cast consists of two teenage boys, Toby and Junior, who have obviously been friends since early childhood. The following examination of this play considers the artistic choices and
intentions of the playwright and how well they are accomplished in this play. What is the artist doing? In the recent production of "Angelina" at the University of Colorado at
Boulders Black Box Theater, the stage is practically bare, as the trees that the boys climb in one scene are suggested rather than shown. This bare stage, the absolute minimum
in stagecraft, i.e., a few props, was a good artistic choice for this production because it focuses the audience attention precisely on where the focus of the playwright is,
which is on the relationship between the two boys: how they relate to each other and what they reveal about their lives. How well has the artist done it?
In the opinion of this writer/tutor, Braun succeeds admirably in his artistic choices, which are to dramatize the dichotomies that can be found in adolescent cognition, that is, how the
teens are caught between childhood dependency and the demands of adult autonomy with no clear direction of how to reconcile these two dimensions of their lives. Braun repeatedly indicates
that while the boys have the bodies of adults, including the raging hormonal sexuality of adolescence, cognitively there is still a great deal about them that speaks of childhood. This
is subtly done. For example, each boy wears a boy scout shirt over a t-shirt, which can be viewed as symbolic of the childhood that they have not yet fully
abandoned, as they continue to indulge in pretend play and grandiose posturing that is typical of children, particularly boys. The fact that both boys are psychically scarred is also
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