Kia Corthon essays

Kia Corthon essays Kia Corthron poses this view to her audience. She says,I feel that if an audience leaves a play and they dont know which side Im on, then the point of the play did not come across. Which is not to say that Im telling them that they have to agree with me, but they should definitely know where I am coming from E would rather make sure that my plays have a clear point of view than worry about them not being dramatically sound. I dont want to feel that literary handcuffs are keeping me from saying what I really need to say (4). This quote defines the personality that Kia has had since she was a child. Kia grew up in Cumberland, Maryland, which was a place filled with factories. She was a part of a working class family. Her mother worked in a paper mill and worked ten hours a day and rarely had a day off. As a child, Kia was left home alone and had no friends. Her mother told her that she used to use the bottom three steps of the staircase as a stage for her characters, which were clothespins. At the age of five, Kia used her imagination to entertain herself, which later on reveals her talent as a playwright (3, 90) Kia Corthron attended the University of Maryland, where she had a bitter sweet experience. In the fall semester of her senior year, her professor gave her positive feedback on papers, but would publicly display an error that she made, which seemed to motivate her. The following semester (her last) Kia took her first playwrighting class. In her final project, she staged a thirty minute play about a Vietnam veteran, which was only supposed to be fifteen minutes of dialogue. This piece astonished the entire class, everyone was quiet. It was such an emotional piece that one student began to weep. Kia was so happy that she reached her audience on an emotional level, not because of the praise it received. It was then and there where Kia realized that the theater was the ...