My School Play

Posted on 13. Jul, 2010 by amauto in Uncategorized

Earlier today my teacher decided to assign a group project consisting of making a play and acting it out. My group consists of myself Gary, Samantha, and Linda. 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. 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. 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. 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. We’ll paint the paper towel rolls so people will think they look like swords rather than kitchen trash. I don’t think the teacher will like it if we just jab at each other with paper towel rolls.

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. 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.

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. He will refuse because he will be against what the army stands for. The play will end as a tragedy because the main character will be killed by his three comrades. 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.

Tags: art, greek helmet, greek plays, plays