Today in lab, please continue working on completing your adaptation script. This project will be due Monday, Nov. 7. If you get tired of writing or need a break, please work on your homework (reading Charles Ludlam's play adaptation of "Jack and the Beanstalk").
Adaptations can either be free adaptations (with wild interpretations of the playwright) or can be close adaptations of the original material. It is a matter of preference. Free adaptations allow for, yes, more freedom, but may annoy your audience who is expecting to see the story as it was written originally by the author (an impossibility, at best). How close you are to the original text depends on you. Neither FREE or CLOSE adaptations are incorrect in an of themselves.
HOMEWORK: Please read Charles Ludlam's Jack and the Beanstalk. Note where in the script Ludlam changes or stretches the original story.
Adaptations can either be free adaptations (with wild interpretations of the playwright) or can be close adaptations of the original material. It is a matter of preference. Free adaptations allow for, yes, more freedom, but may annoy your audience who is expecting to see the story as it was written originally by the author (an impossibility, at best). How close you are to the original text depends on you. Neither FREE or CLOSE adaptations are incorrect in an of themselves.
Some famous adaptation plays:Please read the article from this link & take notes for a quiz on the playwright: Charles Ludlam interview.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield
Desdemona by Paula Vogel (Baltimore Waltz)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Salome by Oscar Wilde
HOMEWORK: Please read Charles Ludlam's Jack and the Beanstalk. Note where in the script Ludlam changes or stretches the original story.
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