I had an opportunity to catch the play ‘Waiting for MacArthur’ at the Moody Auditorium. The play was on Friday October 10 2003 on the Lubbock Christian University campus grounds. I was somewhat eager to see the play; one reason being that it was on campus and two because Dr. Don Williams and Dr. Laurie Doyle were directing the production. Being a psychology major this helps me better analyze people. Just kidding, I do not want to scare you. I mainly saw the production because it was on campus.
The play itself contained one main character, Annie Lou Holsom, and three other supporting characters. Annie starts the play as a nurse who has just enrolled in servicing in the World War II. She sees the whole brigade as amusing and quite entertaining as she makes fun of her supervisor with ‘clucking’ mockery. As the play progresses, she is faced with having to dodge bullets and deal with wounded
The use of lights and sound helps the audience get the perspective of being in a live battlefield. The lights would flicker on and off rapidly as if you had to dodge from the bullets yourself. The sound was from a fighter plane soaring down as it shoots at his target. Every time one of the girls was reading a letter or writing a letter, the spotlight would shine upon them. The actors themselves were dressed in apparel according to this time. Annie was dressed in a nurses outfit, but later dressed in overalls so that she would not stick out when planes came attacking. Rosalie was dressed in a flirty dress, which was until she married and her husband began abusing her. Margaret dressed accordingly to what a schoolteacher would assumable wear. Mama dressed as if from the German countryside.
I was very happy to see the personality of what the actors brought forth to portray their character. When l
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