Please take the first 5 minutes to look over your notes for your test.
After turning in your exam, please use the time in class to upload and prepare your play script (those are due today by 11:59 tonight). If your script project is submitted and peers are still taking the test, please use headphones to listen to the following videos and read the two reviews concerning Hamilton, the Musical.
Video Advice:
Review: All About the Hamiltons (New Yorker)
Review: "Why the show isn't as revolutionary as it seems"
Our next play will be Hamilton, an American Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda. You can learn more about Miranda at the link.
As we read/listen to Hamilton, notice theatrical conventions. Also, look for some of these Greek Tragedy elements in the libretto:
After turning in your exam, please use the time in class to upload and prepare your play script (those are due today by 11:59 tonight). If your script project is submitted and peers are still taking the test, please use headphones to listen to the following videos and read the two reviews concerning Hamilton, the Musical.
Video Advice:
- Jake Jeppson's Advice for Playwrights (how to get started!)
- What actors want: Actors Imagine their Dream Roles (then ask your drama friends what kinds of roles they would love to play on stage...)
- Time Management for Playwrights by Martin Zimmerman
Review: All About the Hamiltons (New Yorker)
Review: "Why the show isn't as revolutionary as it seems"
As we read/listen to Hamilton, notice theatrical conventions. Also, look for some of these Greek Tragedy elements in the libretto:
- A story based on history or historical legends
- Hubris (a tragic flaw or Hamartia of a character who feels he/she is too great, powerful, or perfect to make a mistake...this is usually taking the gods or fate for granted, or ignoring the natural reality of life, etc.)
- A good (or powerful) character comes to a bad end (usually as a result of the character's hubris or hamartia)
- A peripety (turning point or change of fortune)
- An anagnorisis (a discovery) (enlightenment)
- A chorus representing the Populus (the people)
- Aristotle's 6 elements of a play: Character, Plot, Idea, Language, Music, Spectacle
- Stasimon (choral singing together)
- Stichomythia (alternating short lines of dialogue between 2 or more characters)
- Parados/exodus (the entrance of the chorus (parados) and the exit of the chorus (exodus))
- Deus Ex Machina (a contrived ending)
CLASSROOM TASK: As we read find examples of theatrical conventions used in the musical. Also, find at least 1 example of each of the Greek Tragedy elements (see handout) as we read/listen to Acts 1 & 2 of the play. You will turn in your notes at the end of the reading.
HOMEWORK: Please bring your scripts back with you to next class. Please complete and turn in your play project draft today if you did not complete it during class. It is due today! Finally, if you did not read the articles linked above, please do so. Be ready to write commentary about these articles next class (Friday).
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