FLAWLESS
They call her beauty And I thought I did too As I saw her step into the world with stride Sharp glint of pride in her eyes As the world stops before her She is absolutely beautiful From her damaged dry long blonde hair To the lacerated plastic in her skin She truly is an envy She walks into the world And the world welcomes her She who plasters muck on the daily Fooling us to believe she’s just that dainty I used to love her I used to stand in front of the mirror Crying, trying to be like her Because her perfection equaled my fatality
When I walked into the world The world told me to be like her That my ‘beauty’ didn’t even reach the needles in her heels Nor the starvation of her torso I tried to please the world I threw my essence into her presence Tearing pieces of my body and molding them into hers Spending my time doing makeup tutorials Or fainting
By: Noelani Rodríguez
Every time I got closer to what she was The world seemed to ask for more Trying to turn me into her Until I couldn’t take it anymore I shouted at the world I stood in front of it, embracing myself in this body This body who didn’t deserve this abuse This bittersweet ‘health’ society sold So we can reach her perfection And that’s when I knew she was just a Lie.
The English Week Tea Contributors: Victor Ferrer Sonia Corretjer Noelani Rodríguez Amanda Varona Kamila Lugo Sebastián Iglesias Juan de la Rosa
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theater director, poet and literary translator. He enjoyed the irony of his date of birth as he was born on a Good Friday, 13 of April. This is a date full of religious connotations as well as superstitious associations. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Some of Beckett’s plays are: Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days, Elutheria and Without Words. August Wilson (1945-2005) was an African American, born in Pittsburg Pennsylvania. He was a playwriter recognized for his play Fences, earning a Pulitzer prize and a Tony award for it.He wrote his first play, Jitney, in 1979. Some of his plays, like Seven Guitars, King Hedley and Gem of the Ocean, premiered on Broadway. His work had a grand variety of themes including love, honor and duty. Wilson died of liver cancer, and his play, Radio Golf, premiered in Los Angeles just a few months later. Agatha Christie (1890-1976) Christie was born in Torquay, Devon, in the southwest part of England. Christie is an author, writer and playwright. She was known as the Queen of Mystery and The Queen of Crime for her advanced mystery theme. One of her most known playwright is The Mousetrap, opened in the 1952 at the Ambassador Theatre. The play had more than 8,800 showings for 21 years, holding the record for the longest unbroken run in a London theater.
Caryl Churchill (1938-) is a British playwright known for her disruptive plays and groundbreaking themes. Her work frequently dealt with abuse of power, use of non-naturalistic techniques and her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes. Churchill has written over 45 plays and has received over 12 awards for her writing. Among her plays there’s Top Girls, Love and Information, Serious Money and Cloud 9, which are her best. By: Sonia Corretjer
The Flick, by Anna Baker, is an amazing play that reels you in with its diverse characters, their developing bonda and the enthralling scenarios that they must face everyday. The way this book portrays its characters allows the readers to comprehend and relate to each one of them, no matter how young or how old one may be. By: Sebastián Iglesias
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Down: 1.World greatest dramatist. 3. A work in which the main character came to a unhappy end. 4. Theater play in prose or verse, especially that which is a synthesis of comedy and tragedy 6. Person or force which the hero the hero must battle 7. What a character says 9. Divisions within the acts of a play. 12. Broadly defined as a dramatic work with a happy ending. Across: 2. What a play is divided into 5. A remark that a character makes in an undertone to the audience 8. It is a dramatic work in which tragic and comedy elements are mixed. 10. A speech that a character makes while alone on stage to reveal his/her thoughts to the audience. 11. A genre of drama in which singing and dancing play an essential part. 13. The central idea conveyed by the work.