For the professional play of my choice, I saw the musical, "Violet," presented in Ford's Theater by director Jeff Calhoun and an incredible team of stage artists and actors. I did not particularly enjoy the plotline of the play, but the acting was great. Since watching "Violet," I have been reading my introduction to acting book, and kept in mind key concepts that author Bruce Miller specifically highlighted that characterizes “good” acting. I also kept in mind critiques and concepts I learned in class. Erin Driscoll played the main character of Violet and I specifically impressed that did not break the fourth wall once in two hours. There musical was based on conflict after conflict. Soon after the main character Violet’s father died she makes a pilgrimage from North Carolina to Tulsa in order to “cure” herself. Violet has a huge scar on her face and believed she is very ugly because of the scar. She is travelling to Tulsa, via bus, in order to see a famous preacher to cure her ugliness. The conflict is something everyone in the audience can relate to because someway or another we are all obsessed with physical beauty. On her bus travels, Violet meets two soldiers traveling. One soldier is white, Montgomery, and the other solider, Flick, is black. Though the ultimate conflict and Violet’s objective is to become beautiful there were many conflicts with in the conflict which kept the play very interesting. The play takes place in 1964, a time in the United States where there was great racism. One of the soldiers Violet befriends is black and the plot line covers many conflicts that arise due to the color of his skin. Being from a small town, Violet notices firsthand for the first time how horrible racism is especially in the south. Violet has a very strained relationship with her father, which is very evident in the play. She believes it is her father’s fault that she is ugly. When Violet was 13, an ax that her fath