Dashboard Drama Collaborative Play Exercise; Driving Miss Daisy

Dashboard Drama Collaborative Play Draft Exercise

• Get into groups of 2-3. You will be collaborating on a scene that takes place in a car. We will be working with the drama students and Mr. Tirre will be recording your scene next week.  
• Your scene should be 2-3* pages in length. Each character you include in your "car" must speak.
• No more than 3 characters per car. 
• Work with the drama students assigned to you to help develop and situations and characters. Theme is up to the writer. 
• Each character should have a reason for being in the car you are assigned. Think about where the character may be headed, or what the character was doing just before the scene begins.
• Give each character a specific prop or small object to use. This can be as simple as a pair of sunglasses or car keys to something strange or compelling, like a stuffed toy, a desk lamp, or a hula-hoop. 
• Match at least one of your characters to the make/model of the car you set your scene in. A police car, for example, is very different from a Model-t Ford. The people who might drive or ride in such a car should help you imagine an appropriate theme or idea for your scene.
• Think outside the box. Creativity is key. Be unique and interesting--but remember that your scene needs to make some sense (at least to the characters involved). 
• Genre and style is up to you and your partner(s). 
• Title your scene appropriately. 
• Write in proper play script format. Proofread and edit your work.
• Include a title page with a character list. (This does not count toward your required pages.)

Share your idea and document with your partner(s) with a Google doc. Share the file with your partner(s)/actors so everyone can contribute to the scene you are writing! Plays are meant to be performed by the actors.

We will be spending class today working on our scenes. Pick up Driving Miss Daisy from the library before we join the acting class.

HOMEWORK: Work on your scene(s); These will be due by end of class Thursday (if not before). Read Driving Miss Daisy and complete the play analysis worksheet in our Google classroom for Monday.