For Thursday's Class, on JANUARY 30

ALL REMAINING PLAYS -- 

IN MULTIPLE COPIES:  ENOUGH FOR EACH ACTOR, PLUS ONE FOR YOURSELF.

NO EXCEPTIONS.

Format for your Playwriting Scenes: New Drafts due Wed.

Jump to Class Jump for our class and look at the Course Downloads.

This Wednesday, bring enough copies for your actors and an extra copy for yourself.

For Friday's Class, on January 24

Bring your Playwriting scene to class -- rough draft -- in DIALOGUE form.  In other words, set up the action you described in your scenario as dialogue.  See this link to Class Jump, where you can find the FORMAT for dialogue for class scenes in Theatre Arts.  (Go to the Course Downloads for our Theatre Arts class.)

For Tuesday's class, on January 21, 2014

Please bring your playwriting scene.  You don't need to structure it as a theatrical scene yet -- just write it out as if it were a brief story in prose.  For example:

Three students are gathered at a coffee shop:  two boys and a girl.  The older boy, Jake, is having trouble with his girlfriend, Meredith (whom we never meet).  The other two try to console Jake.

After hearing some encouraging words from his two friends about struggles in new relationships, Jake admits  that Meredith seems to be an alien -- a visitor from another planet disguised as an Earthling teen.  The others protest, but Jake persists.  He says that Meredith came to Earth buried inside a meteorite, and that she made her way to Jake because his cellphone transmitted a signal that Meredith's extra-terrestrial ears could appreciate.

The others express deep concern for Jake.  One tries to calm him down while the other makes not-very-secret phone calls -- first to Jake's parents (who don't answer), and then to 911.

As their chatter continues, a power outage hits the coffee shop, and all the lights go out.  The only lights left in the room are Jake's eyes, which glow an eerie shade of pink.

Finis!

[For our purposes on Tuesday, you can type this or write it by hand.]

Tuesday night, Dec. 17

Finish reading Act II of Tartuffe.

For Tuesday, Dec. 17

Finish reading Act I of Moliere's 17th-century satirical comedy:  Tartuffe!!

Be sure to consult the CAST page so you can keep the characters straight.

For Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Go online and finish the play!

Once you finish reading, either (a) listen to the Audio performance, or (b) watch a YouTube.

(Scroll down to Monday's blog entry to see these links.)

We'll hear class clowns read Paul Schmitt's translation of Chekhov's play on Tuesday.  Also, be sure to bring your brown textbook to class on Tuesday.

For Theatre Arts students who didn't enter Poetry Out Loud selections Monday:  please go to the Poetry Out Loud website tonight and make your two selections -- one shorter poem (25 ll. or less), and one longer poem (26 ll. or more).  At least one of your two poems has to have a pre-1900 publication date.  As you'll see, the P.O.L. site is designed to help you make these choices:  link to the Poetry Out Loud web site.  All poems must come from the P.O.L. site!