One Act Plays by Christina Engela:
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The curtain rises…
One day in 1983, when Christina was 10 years old, one of her English teachers handed out a book of one act plays and had the kids in class read out various parts in the plays. This set her imagination on fire – and she began literally playing around with writing plays of her own! She even set out to build a cardboard box theater model – which didn’t get very far, but never mind that – at the time she was fascinated with all things theater!
A number of abortive attempts to write her own play resulted in a list of fanciful incomplete titles like “Prison Camp Capers” (1983), “The Floppy Plans” (1985), and “Ballad For A Nutter” (1987).
Christina Gets Serious About Plays!
The first one act play draft that Christina actually finished was “Villa Of Terror”, which she started working on in 1989 after reading a story in an Usborne children’s book about ghosts and ghost hunting! Based on a story about a man in ancient Greece who once rented a haunted house in Athens, the story relates how the main character deals with the apparition and helps it find peace.
In 1990, Christina was the producer and director of a high school play entitled “And Justice For All”. She also had a hand in supplying and creating props for the play, which added to her experience and insight about plays!
In 1991, Christina wrote “The Traitor Loyal”, a WW2 play set in Paris during the Nazi occupation, about a trap for the French resistance being laid by a German General – which is unexpectedly foiled by the General’s own secretary – the traitor in the title.
In 1992, while in the army, she began writing “The Lion Of Destiny”, a sci-fi play. She never finished it on account of scarcity of time, and later, her discarding her religion. She felt there was no point in completing the play if she no longer believed in its original premise.
In 2022, “The Traitor Loyal” was edited and revised by Christina for potential release.
One Act Plays by Christina Engela:
- “Villa Of Terror” (1989)
- “The Traitor Loyal” (1991)