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. We decided to create a Greek play because Linda’s dad has some Greek costumes that he used for a costume party a few years ago. One of the costumes has a red stain on it, but it is fine because we think we can pass it off as blood. The costume is a soldier costume so blood will fit in fine with the theme of the costume and the play.
The play only needs to be five minutes long, but that is still a lot of lines to memorize. We figure that if we make the play center around a fight scene then we will not have to talk as much because we can spend some time sparring with our weapons.
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. His philosophy is that the school would not like us to take weapons into the building. The use of old paper towel rolls will be employed in an effort to make safe swords to spar with. The paper towels rolls will need to be painted so that they look a little more authentic. I don’t think the teacher will like it if we just jab at each other with paper towel rolls.
The theme of the fight scene is going to be betrayal. We will have one of the soldiers abandon the battle and three of his buddies will go after him. They will get into an argument and then will begin to do battle. During the battle the main character will have his Greek helmet knocked off of his head.
Upon the helmet hitting the ground, the actors will begin to talk once more. The chasers will plead with the betrayer to rejoin the army so they can end the battle. The betrayer will not do this due to his moral principles. The play will end as a tragedy because the main character will be killed by his three comrades. Tragedies tend to be the most emotional types of plays and we think this will help us with our grade. Linda thinks that if we practice we can get the best grade in the class.
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