My initial inspiration for this piece was Trifles, which funnily enough only shares the

A short play is usually filled with a theatrical energy of diverse anthologies. The time allotted may be only ten or fifteen minutes, so it must be able to capture and engage the audience with some dramatic tension, exciting action, or witty humor. Just as in a short story, a great deal of the explanation and background is left for the reader or viewer to discover on their own. Because all the details are not explicitly stated, each viewer interprets the action in their own way and each experience is unique from someone else viewing the same play. Conflict is the main aspect that drives any work of literature, and plays usually consist of some form of conflict. In “Playwriting 101:

Chris strives to show people how real these situations can be. A man by the name of “William Boyette, a man accused of killing four women during an eighty-day crime spree, had allegedly beaten, stabbed, threatened or otherwise victimized numerous women over a span of more than a decade.” These situations are extremely dangerous and Chris may have been trying to help these people that end up in these situations victim or not. These situations should never be let out of control if possible they need to be stopped as soon as possible before they get out of hand. Some of the situations in the book got out of hand such as the situation with Heidi and her father Rich.

and convince them that his death is on their hands. Not only did Chris complete what he was trying to

James is confused and does not know how to choose between writing and music and also whether to identify himself as black or white. An example of him overcoming this situation is when he says “there are two worlds bursting inside me trying to get out. I had to find out who I was and in order to find out who I was, I had to find out who my mother was” (266). This is important because James wants to know what the right decision to make is. He wants to make the decision that will make him find his path in life and make him happy and successful. At the end James chooses both careers and identifies himself as biracial, which makes him feel

James choosing not to deal with his grief, is a way that separates him for the other characters

a story that showed how all five suspects knew each other. One can see how Detective

Suzan-Lori is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. Innovative and occasionally controversial and she is one of the most highly acclaimed African-American woman playwrights in contemporary theater. Reading the excerpts from Suzan-Lori Parks’ essays actually helped me because her main purpose in her writings is to guide newcomers (play writers) by offering some background information and ways to help on how to appreciate plays. Such as the Element of Style essay which is intended primarily for the new generation of theater makers. One thing that I liked the most about her way to guide new playwright that she never tells you what to add or not what to add in your plays. The only thing that she really emphasizes is that a playwright should ask themselves why they feel whatever they are writing have or should be a play? According to Parks “ the words “why”, “have” and “play” are key. If you don’t have an answer then get out of town. No joke. The last thing American theater needs is another lame play.” (Pg. 7) One thing that we should always do about playwriting is not to take anything for granted.

I think I did a great job of spreading out major points in the play, and feel like this essay deserves an A, but at the same time I still think I need to work on filling in my holes better with quotes, while maintaining the crucial flow. When you grade my essay I’d like you to point out to me the holes in my essay, which I can transition with better. It was really difficult for me to do with that 3-page limit. Which leads me into my next statement. I apologize for going slightly over that 3-page mark, but I cut as much as I could.

• Make sure you think carefully about the play, details, allusions, themes of the play that you can incorporate

3. I did not understand the reason for this scene. It seemed like a joke and a waist of time. The detectives were of topic and not professional when it came to their topics. They all started laughing at the end which made it accord.

To begin with, in this play the author unfolds family conflicts that involve its characters into a series of events that affected their lives and pushed them to unexpected ways.

The detective fiction genre is a wonderful conglomerate of intricate stories laid out in a well thought out manner. The methods of detection used by many of the detectives that we have read about in this class tend to work perfectly in the cases of the stories themselves. But if we were to take these detectives out of their covered stories and put them into the real world, there would be a myriad of different real world problems that they likely couldn’t solve. In this writing I will analyze a few different problems in the real world that our detectives would issues solving with their methods described in their respective texts.

James takes his unathletic and unpopular self in

Initially I thought I would do the acting part of the assignment since I had not acted in a long time and it seemed pretty simple. However I like to write and I had never written anything of the sort before so I picked that. Most of the stories and both plays we have read in the class have more or less gloomy endings. I decided to change that by extending a play and ending it on a happier note. Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey was obvious choice for me because I find it funnier and more engrossing than Suddenly Last Summer. I was excited to start writing since I had some ideas as to how to end the play.

By leaving a few minor loose ends Ives lets readers construct their own back-story for the characters. This uncertainty heightens the play’s richness because it makes the play unique and individualized to each different reader and audience member.