Fools

Fools
I went to watch Fools on Saturday night. The comedy by Neil Simon turned out to have a whole lot of dirty jokes, something that surprised me because it’s a school play. Still, to make a comedy effective, some sexual jokes are required.
I loved the stage. It looked very simple, just three houses there. The contrast between the inside of the house and the outside was also very well done. Though in class we talked about how there was a problem with the lights, I don’t think it was that notorious. The spotlight has broken, and that I could tell from the audience, but other than that I think it was pretty good.
The sound effects were also very well done. They were all on cue, so they all made sense with what was going on onstage. What I mean is, sometimes a sound, like a gunshot, comes before the actor actually “shoots” the gun onstage, so that messes everything up. I didn’t see that happened in this play.
The actors on stage were really good too. I was sitting at the back of the auditorium, and I was able to listen with no difficulty. At times it was hard to understand what they were saying because they were talking too fast, or because they started speaking before the audience started laughing. Still, all of them were very into their character, and they did a very good job portraying them. There was only one character I could not get what his purpose was, and that was Luchito’s character. Not because he wasn’t good at illustrating him, but because I couldn’t see where he fit in the play.
Overall I think it was a good play. It was fun to watch and it was funny, and that’s usually something hard for actors to do onstage and they managed to do it most of the time.