THE 1041C Theater Reviews

It had been months since I had entered or even seen my high school.  It was a cold chilly night, I sighed with relief as I entered the building escaping the cold. Memories from my high school years started flooding my mind as I entered the building, I realized that the best four years of my short life had occurred in this building.  I pictured my self as a freshman entering these doors, feeling the same emotions I had felt when I first walked in Baruch as a student.  I steered across the green and yellow hallways, past the horrifying bathroom and into the gym, to watch Boeing Boeing.  My friend Chastidy Roldan, an actor in the play, recommended me to watch the play.  As an incurring depth of our friendship I accepted her request and sat down in my seat to watch comedy, betrayal and decadent behavior unfold on the stage.

Boeing Boeing is one of the many famous plays that have been forgotten due to the trial of time.  My English teacher Mr Muradyan and his students, Patrick Jordan, Chastidy Roldan, Diya Vazirani, Paulina Zazafufuyan, Roosiel Agramonte and George Georgio decided to take on the challenge of putting on this play.  Boeing Boeing is a classic farce written by French playwright Marc Carmoletti.  The play heavily utilizes slapstick comedy and revolves around the lives of Bernard, a successful Parisian architect, who tries to juggle three flight attendant fiancées.

The plays comedy heavily relied on the confusion and reaction of Bernard trying to manage his three fiancées.  The cast of Boeing Boeing did a tremendous job of portraying emotions that captured the sense of confusion around the mainhousehold.  Chastidy Roldan, Diya Vazirani and Roosiel Agramonte did a great job of perfecting their reaction times, which is an important part of comedy, acting out the different personalities of the fiancées and enchanting the audience by making them fall in love with the characters. The main male actors Patrick Jordan and George Georgiou also perfected their own roles.  Their characters created the emotion of apprehension due to the fiancées who could uncover their plot, implementing great use of slapstick that was not cheesy in a sense but humorous and were in the most general sense amazing actors.

The school had also spent a great deal of time and money putting the set together.  The set was a beautiful art, simple yet sleek, that really captured the essence of the 60’s.  Little details like an oval fishbowl, green and yellow colors and an obtrude clock made the audience belief that this was what the 60’s were like.

Boeing Boeing is one of the few plays that I have seen and enjoyed.  My highschool peers had put in a great deal of effort in to the formation of the play, and any individual could prove it as a fact.  The time and effort put in to the play can be seen in the terrific acting, direction, presentation and set design.  It was a high school play that followed and accomplished the standards of recognized NYC theaters.