Readers Theatre Script: Fight Total: Two

“Fight Total: Two”

From The Total Tragedy of a girl named Hamlet

By Erin Dionne

Readers Theatre Script Written by: Kaitlyn Sumner, Meagan Stickney, Olivia F.

Cast: Narrator Kaitlyn Sumner

Dezzie Olivia Forsberg
Hamlet Meagan Stickney

Narrator: Our readers theatre presentation is called “Fight Total: two,” from the
book, The Total Tragedy of a girl named Hamlet by Erin Dionne. The
characters being played are: Dezzie read by Olivia, and Hamlet read
by Meagan. I, Kate, am the narrator.
Hamlet is trying to be an ordinary eighth grader, but it’s hard with her
with having her genius seven year old sister tagging along in the same
grade, at Howard Hoffer Junior High School, and her Shakespearean
scholar mom picking her sister up in her Elizabethan-era clothing (in
public).
To take some stress off, she likes hanging at the Chilly Spoon, for some
ice cream with her friends. But, she is now done eating, and is headed
home.

HAMLET: Enters the kitchen at Kennedy’s house

“Hey Dezzie, I brought you some berry crunch!”
Put the ice cream on the kitchen island

DEZZIE: Runs in from the den

“Huzzah!”
Begins to eat ice cream
“Did you know the first recorded recipe for ice cream was printed in 1718,
in a book called Mrs. Mary Eales’s Recipets and…”

HAMLET: Cutting off Dezzie

“Nope. And I’m not interested in learning any more. You could’ve just said
thank you.”

Erin Dionne. The Total Tragedy of a girl named Hamlet. London: Puffin Books, 2011.
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DEZZIE: “Oh…ummm… sorry… I just…”

HAMLET: Cutting off Dezzie again

“It’s fine.
I’ve been meaning to talk to you. I know things have been kind of
different between us the last few days…”

DEZZIE: “If by “different” you mean you made some unconscionable comments to
me, then I agree.”

NARRATOR: “Earlier that week, Dezzie and Hamlet got in their first fight. What
started as Hamlet trying to comfort her sister after a hard day, ended
with raised voices and hurtful words. Both sisters were struggling to
relate to each other’s very different lives and academic abilities.”

HAMLET: “You insulted me first.”

DEZZIE: “YOU were malicious. I would never be malicious.”

HAMLET: “Okay fine. You’re right - as always. I’m sorry.”

Short silence. Dezzie plays with her empty ice cream cup avoiding eye contact with
Hamlet.

HAMLET: “There’s something else I have been wanting to talk to you about. I think
there’s something you might need to know…”

DEZZIE: “What?”

HAMLET: “It’s about Saber and Mauri.”

NARRATOR: “Saber Greene and Mauri Lee are two eighth grade girls that Hamlet
doesn’t get along with. After avoiding them since sixth grade,
Hamlet has been forced to interact with them due to their interest in
Dezzie.”

Erin Dionne. The Total Tragedy of a girl named Hamlet. London: Puffin Books, 2011.
 Readers Theatre Script: Fight Total: Two

HAMLET: “Dezzie, they’re not your real friends. They’re just using you to -”

DEZZIE: Cutting off Hamlet

“How would you know?”
“You are just saying that because you are obviously jealous of their social
stature, and thus, my interaction with them.”

HAMLET: “That’s not it.”

“I don’t want to hang out with them or in their friend group. I just want you
to see who they really are and what they want from you.”

DEZZIE: Gets up and throws her cup and spoon in the trash
“I don’t want your help anymore, Hamlet. I’m doing just fine on my own.”
Exits the kitchen

HAMLET: whispering under her breath

“Forget getting anymore ice cream from me.”
Exits the kitchen

NARRATOR: “That makes for two fights in one week. Something this set of sisters
has never experienced before.”

Erin Dionne. The Total Tragedy of a girl named Hamlet. London: Puffin Books, 2011.
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COLLABORATION FORM
Working together on an assignment or project means sharing the responsibilities for completing
that assignment. While each member will naturally shoulder different responsibilities while
working on the project, collaboration does not mean merely tacking someone else’s name to the
project so that they can earn credit for completing it. Listed below are the members of our
collaborative group along with our signatures. We have also specified the aspects of the project
for which each one of us was responsible and rated ourselves on our collaborative work.

Names of Group Members & Responsibilities Self-Assessment

Signature

Kate S. -Got the book to share amongst us I believe I worked well

Kaitlyn Louise Sumner
-Started Google Doc with my peers during our
-Read book scene selection, and had
-Help with episode selection the project set up so it’s
-The Narration easier for us to all work on
-First page Format a document.

Meagan S. -Read book I feel that I contributed

-Episode Selection equally to the theater
Meagan Stickney -Format script and worked well
-Adaption with the other group
-Dialogue between Dezzie and Hamlet members.
-Acting

Olivia F. -Read book I feel like I worked really

-Episode Selection well with my other team
Olivia Forsberg -Acting members and I
contributed equally.
Our signatures above attest that we all contributed equally in this project.

Erin Dionne. The Total Tragedy of a girl named Hamlet. London: Puffin Books, 2011.