Lab: 1st period. Please complete a draft of your monologue 2-person scenes. Print or share your Google Doc with me by end of day today. If you finish your scene work before the bell, make sure you have read The Baltimore Waltz background material--you'll appreciate the play more, if you do.
Things to do before you're done:
When you have completed your work, please watch "Dutchman" from the posted link or the one below. Also, check out these videos:
Classroom: 2nd period. Let's discuss Dutchman and any lingering remarks about Oleanna. Then, let's begin reading The Baltimore Waltz in class.
HOMEWORK: Complete The Baltimore Waltz on your own. Summarize the scenes we do not read in class. Your summary should be direct and concise. Answer: what happens in each scene? Hand this in as participation credit next class.
Vocabulary to know: Suggested Setting or Suggested Set: A setting on stage in which only a few set pieces or lighting or other technical elements take the place of elaborate set construction. Suggested sets are usually not very realistic, but use metaphor to suggest a theme or meaning for the action of the play.
Things to do before you're done:
- Correct grammar, formatting, etc.
- Give your play a title
- Read over your script--preferably out loud to catch difficult lines, awkward sentences, vague or uninteresting parts, etc. Cut and revise these sections.
- Feel free to borrow a style from Mamet or other playwrights in regards to dialogue.
- Remove unnecessary or distracting stage directions.
- Look over your work one more time before submitting/printing.
When you have completed your work, please watch "Dutchman" from the posted link or the one below. Also, check out these videos:
- Oleanna with Bill Pullman & Julia Stiles.
- Oleanna at the Old Vic (ending scene)
- Oleanna (full movie, 1994; with William H. Macy)
- 'Night Mother (trailer, movie with Sissy Spacek & Anne Bancroft)
- How I Learned to Drive, Interview with Paula Vogel: Women in Theatre
Classroom: 2nd period. Let's discuss Dutchman and any lingering remarks about Oleanna. Then, let's begin reading The Baltimore Waltz in class.
HOMEWORK: Complete The Baltimore Waltz on your own. Summarize the scenes we do not read in class. Your summary should be direct and concise. Answer: what happens in each scene? Hand this in as participation credit next class.
Vocabulary to know: Suggested Setting or Suggested Set: A setting on stage in which only a few set pieces or lighting or other technical elements take the place of elaborate set construction. Suggested sets are usually not very realistic, but use metaphor to suggest a theme or meaning for the action of the play.
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