Looking Forward to Visiting North Carolina
Posted by Sam on August 22, 2009
At the high school where I work in Colorado, we’re getting ready to produce the play, Look Homeward, Angel on October 8. It’s a Pulitzer Prize winning play based on the novel of the same name by author Thomas Wolfe.
The book is pretty complicated, yet the play is pretty straightforward. Still, I want to do the play a great deal of justice. I want to infuse the play with details from the novel, even though they might not be mentioned in the play. First off, I can definitely use the book’s character backgrounds to help the actors understand their roles better. It is rather semi-autobiographical, and refers to a number of actual places in North Carolina, like Chapel Hill. And the whole feeling-tone of the play suggests some mores and attitudes of that region. Although the play takes place in 1917, I still think I could get a grasp of the culture if I could experience it just a little bit.
So I was thinking of visiting the area, just to get a taste of the local flavor. I’ve been looking at rates and think I just might book a room at Sleep Inn. Durham, North Carolina will give me a nice taste of that region, I think.