The Caucasian Chalk Circle

In the group that did the RUR reading, a few of them were in a play recently done by other Stony Brook Students called The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

I went to watch it because one of my friends were in it.

It was actually a pretty good play. The story line was funny and not too serious, and the actors were really good.

Though there were parts that were not perfect, they were more or less really good.

Better than what I would have done.

The Caucasian Chalk Circle is about a girl who decided to take care of a baby that was not her's, looking after it day after day.

Though in the beginning she did not want it, the more she spent time with the baby, the more fonder she grew of him.

Near the end of the play, the girl encounters the real mother, who was the grand duke's wife (for the girl was a servant to the grand duke's wife). The wife wanted the child back, but the girl had already created a special relationship with the child, and fought to have custody of the child.

The judge, seeing as how each of the mothers were, decided to make them do a trial.

The judge had a circle drawn on the floor and had the child be put in the middle of the circle.

He then had the mothers take each hand and at the count of three, the one who gets the child to their side of the circle would be able to keep the child.

The girl, not wanting to hurt the child, decided to let go before any harm came to the child.

Seeing this, the judge decided to hand the child over to the girl, for she should more love and care for him than the real mother.

How much care and time and struggle mothers go through for their child.