The spoken word performance that I have chosen is called An Origin Story by Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye. It was kind of hard to find a spoken word piece that I actually really liked. There was one where I thought the way it was written was interesting because it was in French and English but the topic was a little inappropriate for a school blog...so anyways.
So as you may or may not have noticed they have really similar last names. And that is pretty much what the spoken word is about. Their scarily similar lives. I thought it was a little cheesy, but I guess it's not entirely their faults. I guess the way they set it up was effective. They'd take turns back and forth and once a big similarity or something important came up they'd say it at the same time. I think it was also mean to be humourous which is also effective. One thing I did like was that they made it clear that they would never ever become a couple. I think if they did end up together it would be a little too much for me. So then there was the name-dropping of famous duos like Lennon & McCartney, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, etc. This was effective because the parallelism made it clear that they were "BFF's". Which was pretty much the idea of the spoken word so that's cool.
So basically, I do think that there was some effectiveness as far as the structure of the spoken word, however, personally it wasn't really for me. But coincidences can be fun so I didn't completely hate it.
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