Plot Summary Of Early Frost's Play

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Plot Structure:The first complication of the play seemed to be when Alice was left alone upstairs and she was talking to Lydia then Aunt Hannah came up and Alice had mentioned that Lydia and her found the key to the chest and were going to open it and then Aunt Hannah tried to convince Alice to get in the chest to hide from Lydia and Alice refused and Hannah started to drag her to the chest. (pg.18 starting at line 16- 22 ending at line 22). This is a complication because a complication builds up to the primary conflict and Aunt Hannah’s action built up to revealing what she had done fifty years ago.
Overview: Early Frost is about two sisters who live in an old house and the sister’s little niece, Alice moves in. While Alice is getting settled in the roof was leaking so Aunt Louise, and Alice tried to fix it. While they were in the attic Louise tells Alice about Aunt Hannah and what had happened to a girl in their childhood named Lydia and at the end of the story we figure out that fifty years ago Aunt Hannah had killed her childhood friend, Lydia that had went “missing”. Play Analysis: While reading the play there can be many interpretations of who’s play it is, but I believe the play is Lydia’s because everything that happened lead up to the reveal
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I want the lighting to make the set gloomy and keeping the set dark. Because the mood is sad I feel the lighting with do that and in the script it tells you when lights are used but other than that it lets you choose how you want to use light and I use a lot of the natural light from the window which is mentioned on the second page on the line describing the

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