Summary Of She Kills Monsters By Qui Nguyen

In the play “She Kills Monsters” written by Qui Nguyen, in the beginning, he focused on Agnes, a young teenage girl who lost her little sister in a car accident. Agnes found a notebook from Tilly’s stuff that contained a Dungeons and Dragons map that was secretly drawn. To unravel more secrets about Tilly, Agnes found a Dungeon Master named Chuck to help her to understand Tilly’s module of D&D. Then Agnes, and Chuck started to play the game, Agnes saw there were some characters; Lilith, Kaliope, Tilly, and Vera, Evil Gabi, Evil Tina, Orcus, Steve, and Miles. In the game world, Agnes learns about Tilly’s observation of her sexuality in reality. Evil Tina and Evil Gabi were bullying Lilith and Tilly in real life. In the end, As Agnes was digging deeper into gaming truth, and the reality begins to clash then Agnes realized how much she didn’t know Tilly. Reality left her in grief.

Even though the story is about her sister but the play was moving around her. Agnes was in grief that once she wished for her sister’s death and her wish came true. The play is a sweet story of friendship, loss, and grief. Agnes showed the depth of loss and grief with her facial expressions and actions. Their costumes were so fancy, shiny, and well-blended with fantastical characters. Costumes help to understand the play better Evil Tina and Evil Gabi are enemies that can identify from their costumes. In my opinion, when they were playing Dungeons and Dragons games their props and fighting scenes were not convincing. But throwing dialogues with 90’s music and references were giving the memory of the past. The cast did not look like exactly 90’s students but they tried their best. The play explores the theme of grief, loss, and