The Open Door - Kaleb Babb

So let’s start off my saying HELLO! I

Im not sure how many of you I might know but my name is Kaleb Babb and I am a Junior theatre major in the department. For those of you who don’t know Liz, she’s awesome and this class has a lot of potential to be really awesome if we all put a lot of effort and talk about all our plays.

So here goes…

At first glance I felt that Alfred’s writing was a little dry but getting into the scene colors started to show through. I loved that when I was reading it felt like I was watching an old television soap opera. I was just waiting for one of them to proclaim the lost of a distant stepson or a removed cousin.

Its hard for me to say a lot of anything else because frankly and honestly I had a lot of trouble reading it. Perhaps if it were written about a more interesting subject matter it might be more amusing to an audience. As a student my mind if locked in designer mode. I had a lot of trouble visualizing any set costumes or lighting for this production thus making it less entertaining.

Better luck next time perhaps.

The Open Door (hope this is the right place)

The Open Door was aptly named. There were several different ways figurative doors were opened or left open (and one literal one).

Of course the literal one is the door that is opened to the drawing-room as Lady Torminster enters, turning on the light and finding Sir Torminster sitting in a chair. It is left open to be proper.

Things are just getting started. This was no chance meeting.

I knew there was going to be something suspicious going on just by the setting.... 2am? They were both up and at the same spot at the same time? And one of them is in the dark? He was not looking for a book, he was was waiting... you can't look for a book in the dark unless you have night-vision goggles.

Each time she feigns attempting to leave it is very easy for Geoffery to talk her in to staying using various excuses. She wants to stay for some reason of her own.

It took Geoffrey raising the stakes of leaving for a two year stint to China to "force open the door" to the conversation concerning their unspoken feelings about each other. Which was much easier to do than either of them probably suspected.

Both of them had a figurative "open door" to each other. It wasn't just the physical door being open.

They left the door to a possible relationship "open" for when he gets back from China. Who knows if Lord Torminster will even be alive then? I'm betting Geoffrey won't be married and they will pick up right where they left off.

One thing that caught my attention was Lady Torminster loved Geoffrey was because he honored his friendship with the husband and wouldn't do anything to jepordize that. This is one of the very reasons they could not be together. Both honorable people.

The figurative door is still open, just in case.