A Dreadful Prophecy

The Good and the Bad in Oedipus Rex (Being an Actor in The Drama Guild):

What is interesting  about the Drama Guild is the amount of fun and hard work that goes into the plays we are doing. Being an actor, it gives you a lot of responsibility to memorize lines and being able to act them out in a certain way to portray your character. It is interesting that the play we are doing is Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, translated by Don Taylor. The only thing I new about it was the quick synopsis I was given by Mr. Berger when we were reading the book Antigone which was the life of Antigone who was one of Oedipus' children. I really thought we were doing a comedy or something PG or at least PG-13. However, when I got the 52 page script and we did a reading the second week in, I was disgusted by the events that happened in the book and it still makes me sick up until now. I can't really explain what was so disgusting to me without giving away the plot and ending. I can see why it was preserved  for so long as it portrays a perfect case of irony at its most tragic and finest. My favorite part of Drama Guild is the laughter and jokes we make off stage with one another. Whether it be about the play or what happened in class. It's very hard to be given a play written so long ago and remember sentences that may be ungrammatically incorrect for this time period. Overall, I love the play and atmosphere, even though things keep changing, as people are given different lines and Ms. Flynn is introducing us to new things to make this play more interesting to the audience. Hopefully it's the best 1 hr 30 min to 2 hours you could have spent. I recommend joining the Drama Guild as it is fun and inspiring to me and others who have joined whether they have been in zero plays before like me or a Drama Guild veteran. Just before you join, take a little advice from me. Make sure the play isn't over a thousand to two thousand years old. It saves you the pronunciation trouble!

Your Fellow Drama Guilder,

Carlos Almeida