A Night Under The Stars: Play Analysis

In our play, “A Night Under the Stars” I played the roll of William, a senior in high school who never got the opportunity to attend the prom until this year. As glorious as this sounds, William had a problem. William did not have anything to wear, and even with access to money for new clothes from his date Elizabeth he still felt the need to have more. William goes out and borrows a very expensive watch from an old friend named Malcom. After this wonderful prom night William realizes he has lost this very expensive watch, and knows he has no way of paying for a new one. After William and his girlfriend Elizabeth go out and borrow all kinds of money from many different people, they finally had enough to replace the watch. Years passed, William grew to be irritable and stubburn at a young age. After finally paying off all his debts, he confronted Malcom about his mistake, all to find out the watch was a replica of the real watch. In our script, Keifer plays Malcom, Shelby plays Elizabeth, Brady plays a cab driver, and Kelsie is our narrator. We struggled getting our script together, it turned out being a more …show more content…
We recited our masterpiece, and lots of changes were necessary to ensure that the viewer had no difficulty understanding our play. One of my suggestions to the group was that we emphasize that our play was not a professional performance. I wanted it to be easy for the viewer to follow the events that were happening, and see the resemblance to the short story “The Necklace” but also see our changes. We developed this dialogue so that our audience would easily be able to understand our message. This led our group to also include lines and scenes that would allow somebody that was familiar with “The Necklace” to notice our