Carnival Of Dreams Play Analysis

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The play starts in the “Carnival of Dreams” with the cast singing and the Proprietor handing the group guns and trying to persuade them to play a game involving killing a president promising that their problems will be solved. John Wilkes Booth enters last and the Proprietor introduces him to the other assassins as the pioneer of president assassinations. Then Booth steps up to the platform lets off a shot symbolizing him assassinating Abraham Lincoln. The Balladeer appears and begins to tell John Wilkes Booth's story. Booth has an injured leg and is trying to write his reasons for killing Lincoln in his diary but can’t hold the pen. He forces his accomplice to write for him at gunpoint. As Booth begins by blaming Lincoln for the Civil War and for destroying the South, the Balladeer claims that Booth's reasons were more personal than anything. When a Union soldier calls for Booth's surrender, his accomplice abandons him and surrenders. In desperation, Booth throws the Balladeer his diary so that he can tell his story to the world. As the Union soldiers set fire to the barn, and Booth commits suicide. the Balladeer claims that Booth was a crazy. all assassins gather in a bar, and Charles Guiteau toasts to the Presidency of the United States and talks about his plans to become Ambassador to France. Guiseppe Zangara complains about his stomach pains, and Booth suggests shooting Franklin D. Roosevelt will cure him. Then John Hinckley accidentally breaks a bottle, and Leon Czolgosz starts ranting about the hardships of working in a …show more content…
The depiction of all the characters were pretty accurate and the actors did well on portraying what it seemed they were be like. the production makes you think about the many assassination attempts, both successful and failed, on past presidents and the reason for those attempts. This production was consistent throughout the whole play and I believe it was true to what John Weidman had intended it to
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