Sound of A Voice

This is a picture of the play conducted in class. I really enjoyed the play that was performed by my hardworking classmates. I could really see the effort that all of them put in to make the performance good.

The characters of the play are a man and a woman, whom are both Japanese. It was sort of a love story. The man was a samurai and he had a mission of killing a witch. He was invited to the house of the woman, who served him tea and tried to make him comfortable. The samurai then stayed on for few more weeks. It was during this period that feelings developed into love. But the samurai became wary of the woman as he had the suspicion that she was the witch that he intended to kill at first. By this time, she fell in love with the man already. She then decided to take her own life because of her sacrificial love for the man, which resulted in committing suicide for the man because she knew he couldn't bring himself to kill her and she hoped that he could complete his mission so that he will be happy. In my opinion, the plot of the play is quite good, although my Japanese classmates commented that the play is not an accurate reflection of the Japanese culture. This is true as the playwright, David Henry Hwang, is a Chinese. But the whole class agreed that he had done a good job in writing the play overall. I personally feel that this is my favorite play of all the plays in class because I find their love story very interesting and captivating.