Overtones might be the funniest play I have ever read. In class, everyone talked about how the overtones and undertones in the play are reflected in women today. We put up false pretenses to hide what we are actually feeling. I agree with this but it wasn't what I was thinking while I was reading it. The entire time i pictured it as a sort of SNL skit. In my head the conversation flowed at a quick pace with Hetty and Maggie barely letting Margaret and Harriet finish their lined before interjecting with how they really felt. It seemed very comical to me. Writing about it made me realize that the play was funnier in my head. Something that really stood out to me in Overtones was the subtlety of the stage directions. For example, when Maggie grabs at the cake given to Margaret, the stage directions say that Margaret gracefully and nonchalantly takes the cake. Without these stage directions, we wouldn't know what was going on. We wouldn't see how desperate Maggie is for the cake or how much of a front Margaret puts up in order to look calm and unconcerned in front of Harriet. I think that its the small things like this in Overtones that made it seem humorous to me. All of the theatrics and drama was just too much(in an good way).
