Download Script Analysis: Exploring Drama Elements through Play Examples - Prof. Huddleston and more Study notes Theatre in PDF only on Docsity! Script Analysis 08/23/2011 8/23/11 blue and red lighting can work for plays background info is important -puzzle don’t know back story line 45 line 49ish line 102 Antigone -civil war -city suffers, close relative to the kings that died -gods ask to not bury polynims -not buried=no kingdom of death -dead finds no rest if they don’t cross the river -why did she go back to the second time? Continuing civil war, proud, Setting -modern, change -civil war -middle east -Amish -Berlin wall, Germany -bloods and crips -insane house Chorus How to present the back story? -ghosts -narrator -movie trailer? Paper -look at scene we did not examine in class -pick a scene in the latter part of the play -something new 1. background -what are the origins of drama? a. performer b. community c. ritual Don’t go crazy Break up the marriage Don’t plot against your mother 1-religious 2-questioning faith 3- philosophical Now I am alone-talk yourself into acting Fall-tragedy/hero/harvest/death Winter-satire/monsters/barren/cold/grotesque Spring-comedy/lovers/wooing Summer-romances/family/wandering/separation/marriage Importance of being earnest is between comedy and satire Know about the differences in texts for hamlet and other plays -can cast differently -have options -educate yourself on a play and the script -know the options of the script cartoons-suggests a world that is creepy and cold -can do more with characters -they do not feel pain 9/20/11 glass Williams is influenced by the german playwright -original play did not have the screen projections -williams play mirrored his life -some part of the memory that Tom feels is the memory that William has -glass is between fall and winter -understand why people like it, understand the why -think about how each event leads to Tom being a magician to sad about Laura -take note of ch. 3, life goes on but not predictable -start at the domino and go backwards -next class pick a character-start at the end of the play and figure out why it happened. Keep in focus what you would say to the performer and it had to coincide with the character. How does the character get to the ending? 9/22/11 half hour rule-if it takes half an hour or less “” if it takes more than that Italics how do you realize 9/27/11 Rosencrantz -characters -do not know that they are characters -love and nothing, King Lear -guil is dreary, concerned about life and memory loss -ros is fun and nonchalant, usually wrong -player and tragedians are actors of hard times -all plays have people in them and the way that you can tell between plays are that the actors can die -Ros and Guild are characters and can never die, they do not know that -people create art, we need fiction, art-for escape and record, coping -3 elements of the play—blood, love, rhetoric -mask=persona -cuplet in Shakespeare means end of a scene -they are trying to end a scene 9/29/11 Ros and Guild are expendable characters in another play -player, you know that you are an actor but not much changes, self aware, hates to be ignored “Shall we try again Hally?...” There is a way. “So what do we do now?...” Hopeless jesture. “You know what that bench means now….” p.350-351 “World without collisions.” Kinds of loss 1. Relationships 2. Respect When Sam hits Hally p. 356 What is the difference in dances in glass menagerie and master Harold Master-competition, glass-actualization 10/27/11 The Piano Lesson GGP – Mama Ester + Boy Charles = Willie GP – Willie + Bernice = Boy Charles 2 P – Boy Charles 2 + = Boy Charles 3, Doaker, Wining Boy Mama Ola + Boy Charles = Crawley, Berneia, Boy Willie Crawley + Berneice = Martha Who are the ancestors helping? He believes that the Sutter’s house will be sold to him What kind of Boy is Willlie Boy? 08/23/2011 08/23/2011
