My teacher assigned a project today that involves my group and I creating a play. The group I’m in includes Linda, Bill, and Frank. Upon learning that Linda’s dad has some old Greek costumes we decided to write our own little Greek play. One of the costumes has a red stain on it, but it is fine because we think we can pass it off as blood. This blood stain will fit perfectly into our play because we are going to pretend to be Greek soldiers.

 

The play only needs to be five minutes long, but that is still a lot of lines to memorize. The play we are writing is going to consist of a small battle so that we can spend some of the time doing battle rather than talking, this will cut down on our lines.

 

Linda’s dad has given us permission to use his set of four Greek armors that consist of breast plates and Greek helmets. He has some weapons to go along with them, but will not let us use them. Linda’s dad does not think the school will let us into the building with sharp dangerous looking weapons. We will be taping old paper towel rolls together to make fake swords to spar with to get around this. The paper towels rolls will need to be painted so that they look a little more authentic. The teacher will not like it if we do not try to make the paper towel rolls look a little more weapon like.

 

The theme of the fight scene is going to be betrayal. The play will start with one warrior abandoning a battle and three comrades attempting to stop him. The actors will start to argue before eventually doing combat with each other. While the battle rages on the betrayer will lose his Greek helmet to a head blow.

 

Once the helmet falls off they will get into a dialog. They will beg him to return to the army so that they will not have to kill him. The betrayer will not do this due to his moral principles. In the end they will kill him and the play will be deemed a tragedy. We all agree that a tragedy will be the best kind of play because it will add a lot of intense emotion to the story line. I’m hoping that all of our planning will get us a good grade.