Meditation #12 -- Katie Marchant -- School for Scandal

The one word that sums up this play would have to be “ridiculous”. It is so sad that these people have nothing better to do than talk about everyone around them, including those who they consider their friends but what is even sadder is that I can not say that I haven’t ever done something like this. This play basically sums up my high school experience. I never knew exactly what the latest gossip was but it seemed like every day there was some new rumor circulating about who slept with who and who threw the best party the weekend before and who had gotten totally hammered at that great party and slept with the person who had just been mentioned as sleeping with someone else! Amazingly, this all sounds very similar to what is happening in School for Scandal! But one difference between my high school and School for Scandal was the fact that the men were almost more involved in the gossip than the women. In high school it seemed like the guys didn’t really care all that much about everything the girls were talking about. I also loved all of the exaggerations about events that had happened. Like we were talking about in class, it is so funny how the characters exaggerated the same things that real people do! It was so funny to read the back and forth lines when they were talking about the screen incident because as a reader you get so wrapped up in line after line of people contradicting each other. The scenes with dialogue like this were so much more fun and easier to read.