Hello :) Well on Tuesday we went on a trip to Mullingar to watch the rest of TY's plays, I was really sad about the fact we didn't get to do a play, but I suppose it's all in the past, no point complaining about it. :)
The first play was by Eriu, based on the poem "Midterm Break" by Seamus Heaney, if anybody doesn't know it, it's a poem about a child who is attending his five year old brothers funeral, who died in a car accident. It's probably one of my favourite poems, even though it's ridiculously sad but it just completely shocked me the first time I read it, I don't know it just kind of stuck.
The second play was by class Banba, it was about a girl Jenny, who was a bully that committed suicide. Jenny liked a boy called Tyler, who got another girl Amelia pregnant, and while at the start of the play all Jenny's friends were ganging up against Amelia, their loyalty changed swiftly. at the end, Jenny was taking a tablet for her headache, and while she was thinking about how much everyone now hated her and that the boy she liked didn't like her back, she overdosed and died. I really liked this play, because even though once again it was kind of depressing, it actually had some pretty funny moments .
The third play, was another play by Eriu. It was based on the song "Concrete Angel" by Martina MacBride, and let me point out it is one of the saddest songs ever. It is a song about child abuse, and about a little girl who had to pretend everyday that she was ok. The play started off by showing Holly, a little girl who had a very close relationship with her father, her father being completely oblivious to that fact that when he was not home, his wife beat Holly, but Holly passed off the bruises as a result of her "tripping". The teacher noticed bruises, but shrugged them off, the neighbours often heard noises but also just assumed it was nothing and ignored it and by the time Holly's father had realised what was happening, it was too late, and Holly was dead. The end of the play showed her father giving a speech at her funeral, about how if he had not been so naive Holly might be alive. Another pretty sad play..
The fourth play and final play, by class Banba also tackled the topic of bullying, by basing their play on the poem Titch Miller by Wendy Cope, by making the poem a diary entry in Tubby's (Titch's best friend) diary, which was then found by a stranger. It was about a girl, who had braces and glasses who was bullied for being different. She was always picked last for teams, mocked, etc... Then, when Tubby moved schools when she was eleven, she learnt how to stand up for herself, mocking "hockey players who could not spell" but Titch was not as fortunate, she was still bullied, and during her monologue she said she didn't think anyone would notice if she was gone, and then they told you that Titch was now dead, presumably by suicide.
There were other schools there, but I went to get lunch so I didn't get a chance to watch them, It was a really good day overall, I loved watching all my friends act out their plays, it kind of reminded me of the Sound Of Music to be honest. Good day!
Well that's all, I'll write again soon.
Aoife.
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