My Story About My Greek Play
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. Linda’s dad had some left over Greek costumes so we thought it would be a good idea to create a 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.
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. His philosophy is that the school would not like us to take weapons into the building. 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. 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. 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. 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. I’m hoping that all of our planning will get us a good grade.