Our class went to go see the play called “Everybody”. This play was written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.  Branden Jacob-Jenkins did a modern day rewrite of the play  “Everyman”. “Everyman” was a play in the middle ages that had mainly the same characters as “Everybody”. For example “Everyman” had characters such as God, Death, Everyman(Everybody), Cousin, Beauty, Strength and so on. These characters is a personification of themes played by humans. This is what makes the play so interesting. Another thing that makes this play so interesting is the fact that they do a lotto before every show to see which characters will play who. So that every time you go see the show you see a different show.

In this play the character “Everybody” is going to die and before she dies death gives her one chance to take somebody with her. She goes looking for someone or something but nobody goes with her except love and all the bad things she done. This shows her that in life she wasn’t as close to the people she thought she was close too, and things shouldn’t meant so much to her because it was just material. She wasn’t allowed to take her things with her as well which made her realize that it shouldn’t have been so important. This is where I really connected with the play.

I really enjoyed the play. For one reason that I enjoyed the play is because I was able to experience something that I would have never done if I didn’t do it with my class. It made me want to be a more open-minded person. Not only that but the play had a interesting topic that made me look at life in another point of view. This play made me realize how sometimes people take life for granted. I was also able to connect with the play. Some things that “everybody” was going through I also went through something similar which kept my interest and attention.