By Sungii
Naruto: How so?
Sungii: I got to see a couple reenactment of plays and they were pretty good - even though it was in an amateur setting.
Naruto: Did you find anything in particular that you enjoyed?
Sungii: It's kind of amazing to see some of these plays come to life amongst the people I knew in real life. I especially loved the play by David Hwang called The Sound of a Voice.
Naruto: Want to tell me about it?
Sungii: It's a bit weird of a play actually. It's a story about a man who apparently is on some kind of journey - not revealed in the beginning of the story - and comes across the home of a woman that he ends up staying with. During his stay, he spends a lot of intimate time with her. I feel as if during this time he slowly starts to fall in love with her. My classmates didn't really portray that effect so well but it's amazing how much of the play was still conveyed during it's reenactment. Obviously those kind of emotions can't come out in acting but it was pretty close, and it was just kind of fun to watch my friends take on the roles.
Naruto: (yawns)
Sungii: Hey! You might not appreciate it but that was a really cool play!
Naruto: You make it sound very boring.
Sungii: I guess you need to read it yourself to understand.
Naruto: I did.
Sungii: Really?!
Naruto: "Yeah, you want me to tell you what was my favorite part about the play?
Sungii: Yes, do share... since it seems that my view on it was... boring.
Naruto: So you see towards the end of the play the man starts to show his affection for her. He slowly starts to tell her that she is falling in love with her, and what is ironic about this is that he was suppose to kill her. He felt defeated so he left. She was a witch and it seems like he wasn't the first lover she had because the flowers that spoke to him sort of illustrate soul like beings trapped inside. I think her past lovers who came and visited and were defeated by her became imprisoned and became flower petals.
Sungii: Your version of this sounds boring.
Naruto: This is the most exciting part yet. At the very end...
Sungii: He tells her he is leaving and she runs back inside crying. He was a bit confused at the sight of this so he wanted to see what was the deal. He found out that she hung herself and died. Mission accomplished he did his job he killed her! Even though I think it's kind of sad because he started loving her.
Naruto: You missed the most interesting part about the play. True the things they did together and the time they spent was interesting, but it was leading to a bigger picture. She died in the end because she loved him. She couldn't bare the thought of her lover leaving her. She must've felt very lost without him.
Sungii: Yeah... that's... wow.
Naruto: After she was found dead it said: "Around her, are scores of vases with flowers in them whose blossoms have been blown off. Only the stems remain in the vases. Around her swirl the thousands of petals from the flowers. They fill the Upstage scrim area like a blizzard of color." Sounds to me like the souls of the past lovers have been set free. When she died the lovers she had imprisoned within those petals were now allowed to leave - they were set free.
Sungii: ... too much
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