School Plays
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. We thought we would have a problem with one of the costumes since it was stained, but we decided to pass it off as a blood stain. This blood stain will fit perfectly into our play because we are going to pretend to be Greek soldiers.
Although the play is only going to last 5 minutes, we do not think we can memorize 5 minutes of lines. 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. Linda’s dad does not think the school will let us into the building with sharp dangerous looking weapons. 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. The teacher will not like it if we do not try to make the paper towel rolls look a little more weapon like.
We’re going to make betrayal the theme of our play. We will have one of the soldiers abandon the battle and three of his buddies will go after 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. 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. 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. Linda thinks that if we practice we can get the best grade in the class.
Tags: art, greek helmet, greek plays, plays
