One Act Play Draft Due!; Titus: Day 2; Beginning Prep for Final

Please proofread, check your formatting, and only after you have prepared your one-act script, please submit your draft here for writing/course credit. Late drafts will receive 1 grade lower per class period, as per usual.

• If you have your play written and it's ready to go before 7:59, please spend this time making vague language specific in your script, reducing stage directions, adding imagery to your lines, and generally tightening up your writing. 
• Take some time to review your own work...proofread and catch errors or mistakes that may lower your grade for this assignment.
• Check the rubric and circle the "grade" you feel your play draft fits. I will, of course, consider what you think, but remember a successful play script is producible, is nearly publisher ready (in regards to formatting and grammar control, etc.), has interesting and creative characters, a creative plot, well-written dialogue, and ultimately provides a theatrical experience for the audience that cannot be easily gotten by TV, film, books, or other entertainment and media sources. Finally, plays involve conflict and usually attempt to answer an important human question or have some relevant human message or theme for the audience to consider. Review your play with this POV and select where you think your play script falls. Turn this sheet in today in my inbox (or with your completed play draft). 

At 8:00, we will continue watching Titus. Complete the viewing handouts as participation credit as you watch. These will be due at the end of the film. Take notes on the play for our final exam if you wish.

Our final exam is coming up in about 2 weeks. So far we have read the following plays during this course:

• The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe
• Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
• Spic-o-Rama by John Leguizamo
• 'Night Mother by Marsha Norman
• Oleanna by David Mamet
• "The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year" by John Guare
• "Words, Words, Words"; "Arabian Nights"; "Variations on the Death of Trotsky" by David Ives
• "The Zig-Zag Woman" by Steve Martin
• The Dutchman by Amiri Baraka
• The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter
• The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel
• The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam
• "The Play That Goes Wrong" & "Peter Pan Goes Wrong" by Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, & Jonathan Sayer
• The Vampire Lesbians of Sodom by Charles Busch
• Red Scare on Sunset, Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Psycho Beach Party, The Woman in Question by Charles Bush
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
• Hamilton, An American Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda 
• Antigone by Sophocles
• Agamemnon by Aeschylus
• Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Make sure you know the names of playwrights and which plays they wrote, the major protagonists, premises, and basic plots of each play we read during the last 20 weeks--your notes and play analysis sheets are a great resource for this!--and consider how the styles of these plays serve as reminders or role-models for the writing techniques we have examined and covered in class. Our blog is a good resource and help as well!

HOMEWORK: None. If you didn't complete or turn in your play drafts, please complete and turn in ASAP.