Better Concerts and Music

Earlier today my teacher decided to assign a group project consisting of making a play and acting it out. The group I’m in includes Linda, Bill, and Frank. Linda’s dad had some left over Greek costumes so we thought it would be a good idea to create a 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. 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. 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. 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.

We’re going to make betrayal the theme of our play. 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. 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. 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.