This document outlines an assignment to write a performance critique of a theatrical production attended during the first month of class. Students are instructed to develop an argument about how the production choices reflected or failed to reflect the play's central message. They should explore specific scenic choices and argue whether they furthered audience understanding or made sense within the world created. The critique should be 4 pages, describe the production, develop a clear thesis, and provide specific examples to back up the argument.

1. · Performance Critique Assignment
· During the first month of class, you are required to
attend a theatrical production and to respond to it in the form of
a performance critique (due February 29). A performance
critique is a short essay in which you describe and offer your
perspective on the specific choices that were made in a
production. For this particular assignment, you are asked to
develop an argument about how the production choices reflected
(or failed to clearly reflect) the play’s central message.
· This piece of writing is uniquely tied to your own
experience as a spectator in the theatre. Your critique should
engage with the production as performance. This is different
from doing a simple literary analysis of the main themes in the
play. You should explore how these ideas are communicated
through specific scenic choices – acting, directing, design, use
of space, etc. – and make an argument about how these choices
contributed to the production as a whole. Did they further the
audience’s understanding of the message it was trying to
convey? Did they make sense within the world they were trying
to create? Was the text more alive because of them?
·
· *If there is a director’s note in the program, this will
be particularly useful in ascertaining what the director’s
intentions were or why he/she chose to stage this play in
particular.
·
· A Performance Critique Looks Like:
·
· Format: 4 pages, 12-point font, double-spaced, 1”
margins. Consulting other sources is not recommended (and you
should definitely NOT consult other reviews of the
performance), but if there is a secondary source that you feel
provides important supporting information for your argument,
you may use it if you include proper MLA citation.

2. ·
· Ticket: Staple your ticket stub to the back page of
your paper.
·
· Description: Give the audience a sense of the play.
Include information about the name of the production, location,
notable cast members, etc. Also include a very brief description
of the main action, and/or the driving character relationships,
and/or the genre (period piece, musical, etc.). When describing
the action of the play, use the present tense.
·
· Argument: You should move far beyond saying
simply whether you liked or disliked the play. Be sure to
develop a clear thesis about what you think the production
company was attempting to accomplish and whether they were
successful.
·
· Specific Examples: Remember to provide specific
examples to back up your argument. Your critique should help
readers "visualize" the play. Provide relevant and evocative
details. You will likely want to address several of the following
elements: Acting (were the characters believable? Were they
supposed to be?), Directing (Did there seem to be a unifying
concept behind the production? How was that concept realized?
Did the different elements of the production fit together?),
Costume/Set/Lighting/Sound Design (How did the space
contribute to the overall effect of the production? What mood
was produced by the design? Did any color in particular
dominate the stage? If so, to what effect? Were there symbolic
aspects to the design? Were lighting changes rapid or slow?
Did sound choices help to punctuate the action, or did they get
in the way? Etc.)
· Current Area Productions:
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Production Theatre

3. Location Dates
Stupid Fucking Bird Wilbury Theater Group
Providence Now-Feb. 6

4. Grizzly Mama Gamm Theater
Pawtucket Now-Feb. 7
Hysteria 2nd Story Theater
Warren Now-Feb. 14

5. The Hunchback of Seville Trinity Repertory
Providence Feb. 4-Mar. 6
Love, Loss, and What I Wore 2nd Story Theater
Warren Feb. 18-Mar.6

6. Frost/Nixon AS220
Providence Feb. 20-28
A Skull in Connemara Gamm Theater
Pawtucket Feb. 25-Mar

7. ·
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· **Most theaters offer a discount with student ID.
Many will also let you see the show for free if you usher (which
means arriving early to hand out programs as people are coming
in), though you have to set this up ahead of time. The Trinity
also has discounted seating on benches at the back of the
theater.
·
· Stupid Fucking Bird by Aaron Posner
· In this irreverent remix of Chekhov's The Seagull, an
aspiring young director rails against art created by his mother's
generation, a nubile young actress wrestles with an aging
Hollywood star for the affections of a renowned novelist, and
everyone discovers just how disappointing life, art, and growing
up can be. Chekhov's characters still ruminate on love,
revolution and the pursuit of happiness, but this time with a lot
more snark as the subtext bubbles to the surface. With music,
meta-theatricality, and mad humor, playwright Aaron Posner
beats The Seagull to a bloody pulp. Review Excerpt: “It’s
irreverent, it’s dark, it’s funny, it’s deep, it’s punk as fuck. You
don’t wanna miss this one.”
·
· Grizzly Mama by George Brandt
· Deb is a divorced suburban mom who reimagines
herself as a righteous, liberal avenger following the death of her

8. activist mother. Her daughter, Hannah, is a typical texting
teenager - at least until she discovers the real reason Mom
moved them next door to a certain Alaskan presidential
candidate.
·
· Hysteria by Terry Johnson
· Egos run amok when Freud and Salvador Dali meet at
the psychoanalyst’s home. Throw in a scantily clad, rain-soaked
girl, and comedy morphs into brilliant farce: one that sparkles,
shines and lights up the mind.
·
· The Hunchback of Seville, by Charise Castro Smith
· At the turn of the 16th century, Christopher Columbus
has just returned from the new world with gold in his pockets
and blood on his hands. Maxima Terriblé Segunda, the brilliant
adopted sister of dying HRH Queen Isabella, is living out her
life locked away in a tower... until it is decided that the future
of the country is in her nerdy, reclusive hands. In a bitingly
funny and madcap take on Spanish history and colonialism,
Maxima weaves her way through mountains of prejudice,
politics, religion and the horrors of history.
·
· Love, Loss & What I Wore, by Delia & Nora
Ephron
· An ensemble piece about ensemble pieces, covering
all the important subjects: mothers, prom dresses, mothers,
buying bras, mothers, purses and, yes, mothers. It sheds some
light on women’s passion for wearing black and for buying
shoes. It’s funny and powerful; serious and sweet, rueful and
ruthless. A unique and universal chronicle of women’s wiles,
worries, insecurities and loves.
·
· A Skull in Connemera by Martin McDonagh
· The Gamm stages the last of its wildly
popular productions of McDonagh's multi-award-winning
"Leenane Trilogy" - including The Beauty Queen of

9. Leenane (Season 29) and The Lonesome West (Season 21) -
with another macabre mini-masterpiece! For one week each
autumn, Mick Dowd is hired to disinter bones in sections of his
local cemetery to make way for the new arrivals. But as the time
approaches for him to dig up the bones of his own late wife,
rumors about his possible involvement in her sudden death
seven years ago resurface. Populated by misfits and miscreants
all digging for the truth, A Skull in Connemara is a
blasphemously funny whodunit complete with flying skulls and
bloody hatchets.
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Jubail University College
Department of Business Administration
Semester 362
Assignment No: I
Section No:
Course Code: BUS 232
Course Name: Marketing Research
Student Name
Student ID
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COMPARATIVE STUDY ON BRAND LOYALTY FOR HAIR
CARE PRODUCTS VS DENTAL PRODUCTS AMONG SAUDI
NATIONALS
Semester 362
Assignment I
Course Code: BUS 232
Course Name: Marketing Research
Submitted by:
ID. No:
Name of the student

11. Submitted to: Mrs. Sabitha Niketh
Lecturer
Department of Business Administration
Jubail University College
Date: 25-2-2016
CHAPTER – 1
Introduction
Definition of the research:
Market is flooded with different variety of brands in different
categories of product, which makes marketers challenging in
creating and maintaining loyalty of the customer towards the
brands. The favorable attitude towards a specific brand
indicates the brand loyalty of the customer (Hult, Pride and
Ferrell, 2012, p 412).
Favorable attitude is about a person’s positive evaluation of a
concept (Peter and Olson, 2008, p 130). The positive attitude of
a customer towards a specific brand indicates the brand loyalty
of the customer. This research study aims at enhancing the basic
knowledge about the brand loyalty of the people towards hair
care and dental products; it also aims at investigating the
determinants that influences the loyalty of the customer.
(You must write in own words-about the research that you’re
doing. Hint – you can pick sentences from the research paper
that you download and paraphrase the lines. At the end of the
line in the bracket write the second name of the author and the
year of publication)
Research Objectives:
1. To determine the factors influencing brand loyalty
2. To compare the brand loyalty between hair care products and

12. dental products.
Research Methodology:
(Outline of the content – primary data – structure questionnaire,
using simple random probability sampling; the data was
collected from 60 respondents; data is analyzed using tables,
graphs and correlation;
Secondary data – collected from journals, magazines, articles
from newspapers and periodicals)
Scope of the study:
The study will enable to understand the factors that determine
the brand loyalty of Saudi national towards hair care and dental
products. It will also enable in understanding the relationship of
brand loyalty between these products.
Limitations of the study:
1. The study is limited to hair care and dental products,
focusing on the degree of brand loyalty.
2. The study is conducted based on a structure questionnaire and
the data is collected from sixty respondents using simple
random sampling method.
3. The collected data is analyzed using table, graphs, and
correlation tools only.

13. Chapter – 2
Literature Review