The play is called “She Kills Monsters” and is a 2011 drama-comedy play written by Qui Nguyen. A high school cheerleader named Agnes is a young woman living in Athens, Ohio, in 1990’s in the play “She Kills Monsters” is a story centered around the death of her parents and younger sister in a car accident. The play’s background has the scenery of a forestry game board, and the props are medieval swords and shields,
The conflict in the play is Tilly was trying to figure out and accept that she is gay and closeted in the 1990’s it was not as accepted and more out there as in 2023 and Agnes's conflict is dealing the loss of her sister and not knowing who her sister really was.
The tragic death of her parents and younger sister changes her
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Agnes' real life is alternated with Agnes playing D&D, uncovering the secrets Tilly deliberately keeps hidden as well as the things Agnes didn't even realize because she was so committed to being "simple". When Agnes' younger sister, Tilly, created a D&D world called New Landia in a notebook, she began researching with Tilly’s friend Chuck Biggs, the nearby gamer who used be Tilly's dungeon master and narrates for Tilly throughout the play, and the world Tilly had formed. There were brave heroes who were all gay, as well as vicious monsters who were all characterized after high school bullies. Now Tilly and Agnes are on a quest to find Tilly’s lost soul who was in the hands of the former overlord of the underworld Orcus. Orcus shows Tilly and her friends the New Landia Map to guide her to her lost soul. They are battling enemies throughout and ongoing the …show more content…
Anges and Tilly argue about how to get to know each other. Tilly and Agnes are caught by the evil cheer monsters and Agnes learns that her sister D&D game was based on her diary and was being bullied and picked on for being gay. In the real-world Anges meets Lily Tilly’s best friend who was based on character Lilith and figures out that Tilly had a crush on Lily but never told her. Anges and Tilly have a heart to heart and Tilly wants her to give Lily a note. In the real-world Miles Agnes’s boyfriend meets up with Vera Agnes’s best friend and discovers that Agnes is distracted with playing D&D with Chuck. In the D&D world Anges and Tilly argue about Miles the jelly cube which is really a shapeshifter and Tilly tells Agnes that she has never paid attention to her and forget about her. But Agnes and Tilly compromise and kill the shapeshifting monster. In the real-world Miles approaches Agnes and Chuck and wants to play D&D to learn more about Agnes. In the D&D world the evil cheerleaders come to battle and Tilly dies and can’t be respawned back. In the real-world Agnes and Vera talk more about Tilly after Agnes has a meltdown after playing D&D. Chuck tells Agnes that there is more to the story, and they go meet Ronnie who is Orcus and Kelly who is Kaliope Darkwalker in D&D. Agnes sees Lily and gives her the letter that Tilly wrote for her, and
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