Prompt One: Overtones Response

After reading the play and skimming it a second time, I was able to separate time when Hetty & Maggie see/talk to each other and when they do not. I put a word to each of these moments, several times they occur only in Maggie & Hetty. For example, when they are seeing/talking to each other they are in moments of disbelief/lies, confrontation, and fighting over the same person they love. For example, there is a moment where both women are talking about Turkey. Hetty believes that Maggie was never in Turkey and she shoots back to Hetty that it’s none of her business. This was a moment of confrontation between the two. The same thing happens between two people with issues between them. They’re looking for weaknesses in each other without giving it away. And when they didn’t see each other they were trying to make one another look better with impression, plotting to get what they want, or have an inner moment of confession about a fact. Many times they are unseen when scheming with their true selves or looking for a way to impress the other and them reveling in that satisfaction.

I believe what this play has done is bring what me may consider to be out inner selves and put them on stage as if they were outside our head influencing us. And it may be obvious in the play directions who is talking to who, but I think it would be easily conveyed on the stage based on the lines in the play along with the idea of Maggie & Hetty wearing chiffon veils to cover themselves. Looking at the rules and the findings that I’ve made from reading the play I believe that the rules set in place are consistent throughout the entire show. Each time the inner selves speak to each other or ignore each other they are following the moments that I’ve discovered in the play.