One-act plays

On December 1, 2017, the One Acts performance was at Cheshire High School by the classes of 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018. Each grade came together to create a play, with that they went up against the other grades and competed to see who had the best play. The freshmen’s play is called, Lord of the Skits: Based on a True Story. All the characters were themselves and it was about how they were trying to come up with an idea for the One Acts play. The sophomore’s play is called, The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon

The one-act play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell, weaves in and out of Aristotle’s theories of unity in time, place, and action, which define a good play. Her use of unity, as well as her stray from unity, delivers a plot and series of subplots that cover a variety of conflicts that intertwine to display stereotypical gender roles that depict women’s suffrage. The one-act play places the females as the protagonist as they define and defend their position in a man’s world while solving a murder mystery

the end of the play he walks off-stage never to return. Chris, I wrote with the intention of making him an arrogant jerk, or someone that you would hate to work with. James countered his personality to some extent, or would have if the victim had not been his friend. I made this a point so that James would be off his game, so to speak. This would justify in Chris’s mind why he would need to act on the chief’s wishes and kill James. In regards to the ending, I chose to end the play on an ill-fitting

you’re really involved in the play, you don’t think about it – you’re in it.” This quote from William Kraft is especially true for the One Act plays I attended. The smaller theater space and closer proximity to the stage allowed you to more involved in the play than if you were seated farther away. In the following response, a synopsis and critique of three of the plays I saw will be given. The first act of the night was a play titled “Losing Sight.” To summarize this play, there was a talented painter

the main characters of each one. In 1916, Susan Glaspell

The single act play “Trifles” is loosely based on the murder of a farmer in the state of Iowa in the early nineteenth century, which Glaspell reported on while working as a journalist. The farmer’s wife was accused of the murder, and was initially convicted, but later acquitted. Literary analysts note that Glaspell “approached the case like a detective” (Bryan and Wolf). More than a decade after that incident, when she was a career writer, analysts describe, “in a span of ten days, Glaspell composed

The one act play “I’m Going” by Tristan Bernard who was a “French playwright, novelist, journalist, and lawyer” (1995) , wrote of two characters Henri and his wife Jeanne who were caught in an interesting dilemma that most of us that are married have been in before. Marriage can at times come to a crossroads due to how love doesn’t mean that the involved have the exact same interests in life. Tristan Bernard builds a great comedic play for those of us who can put ourselves in Henri and Jeanne’s

Plays are written to be performed. If there is not enough money to fund the entire play, it will be problematic. When a playwright decides to make a shorter play, he or she must accommodate all elements of the play to work with that decision. Character development becomes more difficult to incorporate, exposition must be concise and explicit, and there must be a perfect balance between plot advancement and exposition. In the play Trifles, there is tension between

would use this case to inspire her one act play Trifles. Names and certain details were changed to fit a more dramatic retelling of the story, but as a whole the story still heavily reflected the Hossack case. The play itself was so successful that Glaspell actually turned it into a short story only a year later and titled that “A Jury of Her Peers.” On the surface, this move seems almost inane, or at least meaningless. What 's the point of forcing a perfectly good play to adapt to a different medium

Finding the Sun, a Tragicomedy Edward Albee’s one act play about four couples’ day at the beach and the ensuing clash of personalities never made it to Broadway and thus never received much critical attention. This series of flowing vignettes is undoubtedly a tragicomedy because it “causes strong feelings of sadness or regret” as much as it “is meant to make people laugh” (Merriam-Webster). Finding the Sun discusses topics such as extra-marital affairs, it has a quick and good natured structure