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I don't like it when people change the rules, especially during a game. My instinct is to shout No fair! It's not right when rules are changed to suit the leader. I was always the fastest one, but I felt obligated to go by the rules. This monologue brings us up to date as we learn what changing the game really means.

GEORGIA XANTHOPOULOU’s monologue, “The Game’, is so reminiscent of what I remember of my youth. I was the one coming in last. I wasn’t big, certainly not strong, definitely shy. When the one who we all admired spoke, it was like ‘The Word’. Thus, the game was in reality fixed. Later, as I moved into adulthood, I felt compelled to adhere to the Rules (expectations, limitations, obstacles) that Society (The Ruling Class) dictated as being ‘good, right and proper’. This monologue spoke to me.

Poignant and reflective, The Game transforms a childhood memory into a haunting metaphor for power and survival. Xanthopoulou’s lyrical writing lingers, offering a sharp, resonant commentary on life’s shifting rules.

It starts very similar to a psychological vignette by Jerzy Kosinski, then becomes evocative of the wisdom of Robert Frost's poetry, finally ending as a parable of life's overwhelming conundrum's. Ms Xanthopoulou's "The Game" must be read, performed, thought over, discussed and argued with. Just like the game it symbolizes. A painfully real monologue.

We can’t all be fast. Sometimes the most we can hope for is to just not me amongst The Slow. In Georgia Xanthopoulou’s thought-provoking monologue, our well travelled narrator reflects on a childhood game of tag where the most favored get to set the rules that everyone else must follow - even if those rules keep changing every time we begin to catch them. The lessons learned in the schoolyard can last a lifetime.