An Excerpt From The Play 'Closet'

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This is an excerpt from my play “Closet” I’d been toying around with the limits you can put on plays by the use of setting so I decided that I would limit the play to one place.The play is about the main character falling in love with the supporting character of James sometime after his break-up with his ex-girlfriend. Mason has never experienced feelings like these before so he spends most of his time in the closet struggling with his feelings and of course talking to himself about them too. I wanted Mason to slowly come to realization that he is in fact in love with james but through the use of dialogue he has with the other characters. This excerpt shows the beginning of the developing relationship between James and Mason I felt like that

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