Period 1: Lab.
Please complete your play projects. Check your formatting, spelling, mechanics, etc. Your play scripts should have a separate title page, character list and setting description (same page).
Use what you have learned in this class to make sure your play is exceptional.
Rubric:
____ Play turned in on time
____ Format correct
____ Play is exemplary; thoughtful, creative, has a definite beginning, middle, end; play is producible for the stage; well written & original; includes monologues to develop character or plot events difficult to stage otherwise; uses imagery & specific diction; dialogue sounds natural and/or poetic. Clear theme and dramatic conflict.
____ Grammar is perfect. Commas are placed correctly, play is proofread, language is exact & correct. See grammarly for help.
Period 2: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Please complete your play projects. Check your formatting, spelling, mechanics, etc. Your play scripts should have a separate title page, character list and setting description (same page).
Use what you have learned in this class to make sure your play is exceptional.
Rubric:
____ Play turned in on time
____ Format correct
____ Play is exemplary; thoughtful, creative, has a definite beginning, middle, end; play is producible for the stage; well written & original; includes monologues to develop character or plot events difficult to stage otherwise; uses imagery & specific diction; dialogue sounds natural and/or poetic. Clear theme and dramatic conflict.
____ Grammar is perfect. Commas are placed correctly, play is proofread, language is exact & correct. See grammarly for help.
Period 2: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
As we read, complete the Waiting for Godot handout (and turn in at the end of our class, even if we are not done reading the play).
Extra Credit Opportunity:
Write a 10-minute absurdist play. Use the characteristics of Absurdist theater in your play (see previous post or your notes). One easy way to start is to take your metaphor and make it real for your characters. Love is a battlefield...set a romance in a DMZ during a raid, or make a date a military coup, or work the metaphor into your plot creatively.
Extra credit scripts are due Friday, Jan. 26. Our lab will be open during the week to work on this if you need lab time. See HOMEWORK below.
This marks the end of the playwriting course. Next up: Film.
You are welcome to use any of the major plays we've read on your Regents exams:
Extra Credit Opportunity:
Write a 10-minute absurdist play. Use the characteristics of Absurdist theater in your play (see previous post or your notes). One easy way to start is to take your metaphor and make it real for your characters. Love is a battlefield...set a romance in a DMZ during a raid, or make a date a military coup, or work the metaphor into your plot creatively.
Extra credit scripts are due Friday, Jan. 26. Our lab will be open during the week to work on this if you need lab time. See HOMEWORK below.
This marks the end of the playwriting course. Next up: Film.
You are welcome to use any of the major plays we've read on your Regents exams:
- Talking With by Jane Martin
- Spic-o-Rama by John Leguizamo
- Monster by Dael Orlandersmith
- 'Night Mother by Marsha Norman
- Oleanna by David Mamet
- The Dumbwaiter by Harold Pinter
- Topdog/Underdog by Suzanne Lori Parks
- Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
- The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam
- The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel
- The Vampire Lesbians of Sodom by Charles Busch
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
- Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin
- Hamilton: The Musical by Lin Manuel Miranda
- Agamemnon by Aeschylus
- Antigone by Sophocles
- The Lion in Winter by James Goldman
- Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
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