Please take about ten minutes and watch a professional/non-professional video from Talking With.
As you watch a monologue, consider whether or not the idea inherent in the script is represented the way you saw it in your head when you read the play. How are words given life on stage? What accounts for changes in the representation from script to performance?
After you've had a chance to review a monologue and think about the performance, be prepared to discuss Talking With in class.
When we finish our discussion, please spend the remaining time in period 1 to do the following:
1. Please take out the handout on "What On Earth Gave You That Idea?" (this is the article we used last week in class).
2. Read pages 6-8 on your own.
3. Spend the rest of period one creating a short paragraph stating (or "pitching") an idea for a play. Keep this pitch in your journal for now.
4. If you finish early, try writing another pitch or read pages 9-21 in the handout (this is homework, anyway.)
for HOMEWORK: please read pages 9-21 in the handout chapter "What on Earth Gave You That Idea?" If you didn't complete an idea for a play, do so for homework.
Period 2: In groups of 1-3 (a group of 4 is really two groups of two...) please read MONSTER by Dael Orlandersmith. You can read a short interview with her here. Complete Monster for homework, if you do not finish reading it during period 2.
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