Last month, a traveling theater group called Chamber Theater visited our school and preformed two plays for us. We got to see The Monkey’s Paw and The Necklace. I liked the Monkey’s Paw the most because there was suspense and was dramatic, but The Necklace was also really good.
The Monkey’s Paw was about a family that wished for money and how their son died to get the money. After he died, they wished that their son would be brought back to life, but they realized that their son would not be at peace, so they wished for him to be at peace.
The Necklace is about a woman who is married to a poor shopkeeper and wants a fancy life. She and her husband are invited to a ball and she borrows a necklace, which she loses. She and her husband have to spend all their savings to buy back a replica but it turns out the real necklace was worth much less.
I thought the actors did a great job preforming and setting a story in a short amount of time. They also explained to us the origin of the plays, which was very helpful, and they told us the moral of the story. We also were allowed to ask them questions and I got to learn more about the Chamber Theater group in general.
