Please complete your reading of Talking With. After viewing the following clips and reading the script, please post a response to the play on our Creative Writing Forum. Posts to our forum should be completed no later than Tuesday of next week.
As you read, answer the following questions (write them out to hand in next class):
1. What did you think about the play as a whole? Did it surprise you or please you or frustrate you? Explain why you reacted to the play in this way.
Choose any of the following to answer on your forum post:
As you read Talking With, pay attention to how the playwright engages the audience and tells an interesting story that develops the single speaking character.
Clear Glass Marbles (monologue, page 19-22)
Audition. (monologue, page 25-27)
Notice how this one uses nice camera work, although cuts part of the monologue text.
Rodeo (monologue, page 31-34)
French Fries (monologue, page 61-63)
If you don't finish the play today in class, please watch "Marks" here. The sound isn't great on this one, but for some of you, it is better than reading it out loud.
HOMEWORK: Please complete your viewing, reading, and posting for Talking With by Tuesday, September 13.
As you read, answer the following questions (write them out to hand in next class):
1. What did you think about the play as a whole? Did it surprise you or please you or frustrate you? Explain why you reacted to the play in this way.
Choose any of the following to answer on your forum post:
- What is the premise of "Talking With"? In a sentence or two, explain what you think is the premise or main idea/theme of the play. Is this premise interesting? Do you think people would pay to see this play?
- The "audience" for each character changes as the play continues. How does the author help a viewer or reader understand who the character in question is "talking with..."? Overall, by the end of the play, who do you think the playwright Jane Martin is "Talking with...?" Support your opinion.
- What challenges and stage requirements are necessary to produce this play? How has Jane Martin anticipated a low-budget, black box theater being able to produce her play? What did you learn about staging from the monologues you read and watched?
- Discuss the writing style of these monologues. Which one do you think was best written? What did the author do to make it well written? Analyze the writing of the monologue.
- Why are the monologues in the order that Martin puts them? What is the reason to start and end the play with the monologues she does?
- After reading about Jane Martin, what amuses or interests you in her as a writer? How might the idea of "Theatricality" (artificial life involving conflict) infuse the script and the whole experience of seeing this play on stage?
As you read Talking With, pay attention to how the playwright engages the audience and tells an interesting story that develops the single speaking character.
Clear Glass Marbles (monologue, page 19-22)
Audition. (monologue, page 25-27)
Notice how this one uses nice camera work, although cuts part of the monologue text.
Rodeo (monologue, page 31-34)
French Fries (monologue, page 61-63)
If you don't finish the play today in class, please watch "Marks" here. The sound isn't great on this one, but for some of you, it is better than reading it out loud.
HOMEWORK: Please complete your viewing, reading, and posting for Talking With by Tuesday, September 13.
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