The Rover was the first play that I have seen by the PLD drama department that I didn't like. I didn't understand what was going on during half of the play, and I couldn't understand most of what the actors were saying. I know they were supposed to be using accents, but it doesn't work when it sounds like a whole bunch of sounds being jumbled together. I don't know if the plot of the play was just too complex for me, or if it was just not presented very well. I thought the play was about girls falling in love with a group of guys, but I felt I was missing out on something. There were parts when I thought the girls were trying to trick the guys they met into doing something, but that turned out to be wrong. The moment where I started to get into the play, someone would say something that I couldn't understand, or an actor would mess up a line or the mike would mess up. Though there were a lot of aspects of the play that I didn't like, it had some positives. The jokes would sometimes be funny, and some of the characters in general were pretty funny. The sword fighting was really cool, since they used actual swords instead of fake prop swords. The part where the actor got hit in the face was pretty intense. It looked like it hurt him pretty badly, since he was bleeding all over his costume, but he stuck it out and played his role like it never happened.
Those were my thoughts on the play. I thought the cast did a great job with how hard the script was, even though there were some minor issues. But, I have never been in a play, and I have no room to criticize them.
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