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Ludlow: Play Analysis
Merry Hammack
Theatre
Leah Miller
1 October 2014
Ludlow
This weekend my classmates and I saw a play called Ludlow, in the Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater. The play was a very horrific, historic, and significant to Colorado itself. The play is about those who were killed in the Ludlow massacre of 1914, which was one of the most fatal and catastrophic coal wars of its time. I am not so sure that I really liked this play. This play was the first play that I had ever been too. (Newbie to the theatre!) From the start of it I really wasn’t sure how it was going to play out. One thing I didn’t understand in the play was the meaning of the earth monster, and how played into the play. Another thing that I did not understand was why the guns were
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