Kayla Orthman

My favorite project I completed this semester is definitely Chikamatsu Simplified. While I was really proud of my designs for Death and The King’s Horseman, I feel like the video was a bit easier and more fun to make. However, both projects allowed me to express my creativity in different ways. I’m overall just more… Read more Final Post — My Favorite Project

I have mixed feelings about the characters in this story. To me, this seems like it was a 28 year old man manipulating a 19 year old girl into suicide for the sake of “love.” I’ll say it: I don’t like Jihei. I didn’t like him before because he seemed to always let O-San do… Read more Chikamatsu Act 3

This session of “Intersectionality Talks” was really interesting. Dr. Candice Roberts was the guest, an LGBTQ+ professor from St. John’s University. They talked about a lot of things that I thought were very interesting, but what stuck out to me especially was their discussion of LGBTQ+ representation in the media. As a queer person, seeing… Read more Intersectionality Talks – Extra Credit

When Jihei was caught to have been seeing Koharu, he repented to his wife, O-San, and wrote a vow. “Jihei…wrote down a vow to the effect that he had broken with and given up Koharu, and that, should his vow prove false, might he be punished by the Gods Bonten and Taishaku, by the Four… Read more Chikamatsu Act 2 Question

On the Padlet for this class, we talked about whether or not Koharu is sympathetic. This ties into what I talked about in my last blog post; I was unable to determine if Koharu genuinely wants to be with Jihei or not. Reading everyone’s input in the Padlet was very eye-opening. In his post, Aidan… Read more Chikamatsu Act 1 Reflection