Textual Reading-Ten Minute Play

For our in class reading, we were assigned to read the Introduction to Drama, pages 779 to 801. I did a few plays in high school and I really loved them! Many of definitions that came up, I have heard at one time or another. So instead of having to make us read plays, Stephanie gave an assignment where we had to perform a ten minute play. I was kind of nervous upon hearing this, but then I found out we were going to be put into groups. My group consisted of Deb, Olivia, Jeff and myself. We performed the play, Fugue, by Laura Elizabeth Miller. This ten minute play was about a serial killer who lives down the street from three little girls. He chops the remains in little pieces and buries each piece in a hole. The three girls are Amy, who was played by Olivia, Gladyce, who was played by Deb, and Lizzy, the girl who I played. The serial killer’s name was Harry, who was played by Jeff. When I first read the play, I was kind of confused about it. But then when I read it again, I figured out that each girl was actually talking separately but also to each other in a sense. The whole play was pretty much a flashback. In the beginning, the girls are re-telling their horrible tales of getting murdered, and then it flashes back to that day when they were murdered. I really enjoyed performing this play. It was a fun way to incorporate drama without actually having to read it. I also liked how we got to use our scripts. That took most of the pressure off of performing in front of the class.