If (and when) you complete your scenario (due today), please study for the unit test on Wednesday, Dec. 2.
You should know:
Absurdism (look over the notes and links for this; refer to your notes and the Rhinoceros handout)
Samuel Becket: Waiting for Godot, Happy Days, (Endgame)
Eugene Ionesco & Rhinoceros
The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Abridged
William Shakespeare & the Comedy of Errors
The House of Blue Leaves & John Guare
Christopher Durang: (particularly: Death Comes to Us All Mary Agnes, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You, The Actor's Nightmare, Titanic, 'dentity Crisis, The Life and Purpose of the Universe)
Commedia dell'Arte
Farce
The Event: (a uniquely significant moment in the character's lives)
The inciting incident (point of attack or turning point in the lives of a protagonist--the event that INVOLVES the protagonist and gets the story moving)
the major decision
Rising action
Dark Moment
Enlightenment
Time lock
Moliere & French scenes
Place & setting
Theme
Scenario
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