![Savanna Fry ('27) sits in a rocking chair and tells a story. "The character [Mr. Hale] was telling the story of what he had happen before, when he found the dead body. I decided while he is telling the story of it, we should have the person [Mrs. Bright] on stage telling the same story. Kind of like the past and present at the same time, " Jessie Dorsey said](https://knightwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_0021-e1733323205787-800x1200.jpg)
Under the dark lights, Troop #2660 performed their play “Trifles” to an audience for the first time on Dec 3 at 7 p.m. so they could get ready to take their performance to a judge. The play is set in rural America in the late 1900’s and is about a murder. At first, the play reveals what happened prior to the murder and then it goes into detail about what happened after. A group of men set out to find clues about the murder while two women stay behind, but the irony is that the women are the ones to solve it. The show that Troop #2660 put on, differed just a tad from the original play by Susan Glaspell.
“As the director, I did things like putting a woman on stage who’s not normally on stage [in the original play], the wife who was held of the murder. I put a jail cell off to the side and showed the woman in the jail cell,” theater teacher Jessie Dorsey said.
The exciting news is the play is going to go to districts, which was part of how Dorsey chose that specific play. For it to go districts it had to be a one-act performance, and Trifles is one of Dorsey’s favorite one-act plays.
“It’s my favorite one-act in the world. I think it’s an important story and a well-crafted one. It’s a timeless one, [and] it’s been around for almost 100 years now, ” Dorsey said.
