questions about a play

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Folks,

The following message arrived in at E-script; besides being an interesting tale, you will see that this young man could use some assistance with play suggestions. I've sent him some, but he gave me his permission to also forward his message to this list. If you can help, please reply to him directly at

idenardy at cc.kmutt.ac.th

Regards,

Frank Moher

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>Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:16:42 -0700
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>From: Steve Taylor <idenardy at cc.kmutt.ac.th>
>Subject: questions about a play
>
>Dear Sir/Madame,
>        I am a student in Hebron School, a boarding school located in the
>Nilgiris (South India). I am currently in Std 10. Next year, my class has
>to perform a play for the school's drama festival when we are in Std 11
>along with the other Std 11 class, and the Std 13 class. Earlier on this
>year, my class had watched "The Crucible" on video, and were captured by
>the play's emotions, and strong moral issues. We were so much into the
>play, that we, well, I mostly, and another girl had decided that we would
>work on the play really hard now (which was about 1 month ago), and put on
>a great show for the school. We talked to the school's head English teacher
>about the play. He thought it was a great idea, and urged us to continue
>pursuing it. The whole class had gotten excited about the play, even though
>it was about 8 months before we would actually have to start practicing
>(which is quite amazing for my class). Now after about 1.5 weeks, the
>English teacher came to me, and said that we are not allowed to perform The
>Crucible, due to a Parents Meeting, where a few parents stood up against
>the play for sexual and occultic reasoning. We argued a while with the
>teacher, but he said that he could not do anything about it, but he would
>really like the play to be performed. Now this has taken place because
>Hebron is a Christian school, and the parents sometimes are against
>controversial plays. We continued to try and get our class to be able to
>perform the play, but the verdict turned negative, so we are looking for
>some other plays.
>        I have searched the net over the past weeks, because I am now home,
>but I have not been able to find any plays which really catch the intention
>we have. I am now emailing you to please help me by suggesting some plays
>my class can perform. We are looking for a play of a cast about the size of
>15-20 people of both sexes. We are specifically looking for a very strong
>play, by which it portrays a vast array of emotions, which should be very
>strong. In the issues of the school, we are not allowed to perform plays
>which have occultic or sexual issues. So really, we can't have a horror. We
>really want a play which would show the unfairness of humanity... such as
>The Crucible where Proctor gets hung. Overall, we want a play that would
>really get the audience worked up. Something like where the main character,
>is sort of like falsely accused or something like that. A play that would
>have so many different emotions (love, hate, terror, etc)... and the play
>shouldn't be too long. We have a time limit of about 1 hour and 30
>minutes... but there can be allowance for longer time, but not at all up to
>about 2 hours. Please help suggest some plays that you feel we might be
>able to look at and be interested in. Overall, we want to really grasp the
>audience and make them think. Please also include the names of the authors
>with the plays.
>                                Yours sincerely,
>                                        Paul Taylor
>
>my address is : idenardy at cc.kmutt.ac.th
>
>
>
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