1) What was the play about? (brief synopsis) Mr. Kipps, the protagonist, has engaged a professional actor to help him learn to act out and reveal his play onstage to his family and friends. By the second act, a shy, timid, and nervous Kipps transforms into the superior actor. At this point, the boundary between Kipps' recollection of the incident merges into the reality of the play the audience is viewing. The audience learns that Kipps, …showed first 75 words of 1825 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1825 total…strains each moment in a play so that his personality does not reveal itself. It's like schizophrenia. The actor knows he has another personality and must fight to keep it hidden from others. I think the role Shawn Guarino plays is immensely difficult because of this. And I do not believe that I am an experienced enough actor to accomplish such a task. Thus, I am left with the final character, the woman in black.