How can theater be used to share the words and stories of real people? My project was really about the process for me. The overwhelming majority of my final piece[…]

Nick Monologue Above is the monologue that is currently the beginning of the play/collection of scenes I have written. I started this week by compelling all the work I had[…]

How can theater be used to share the words and stories of real people? Compared to most of the work I have done this project has been focused on the[…]

I spent most of this week focused on my own project. At the end of week 4 I was feeling really stuck with my work so I went back to[…]

Throughout this process a large portion of my project has been reading plays and journal articles. I believe the essay that I shared with Joan and Nellie on April 8th[…]

While my project is focused on documentary I am very glad that my question is not specific.  I spent the first two weeks of my project reading documentary theater and[…]

During Week 4 I spent a lot of my time creating my first monologue/figuring out what it means to create a piece of theater from transcripts. I took two of[…]

This week I have started going deeper into my own work. I started by finishing off transcripts from two moments that stood out to me when rewatching videos. I also[…]

How can theater be used to share the words and stories of real people? The other night I sat at the dining table while my mom did a puzzle and[…]

This week I spend a lot of my time trying to figure out what to do with the material I had from my trip to Harlan. I wanted to go[…]

Above our my continued notes on research. I have continued to read about documentary theater specifically as well as think about story structure in general. This week I began and[…]

How can theater be used to share the words and stories of real people? When I wrote this question a little more than a month ago I knew I wanted[…]

Linked above are scans from my first few days of work. So far I have focused most of my time on research. I have read two plays so far: The[…]

Project Name: Understanding Documentary Theater   Essential Question This should be the current, clearest version of your essential question. How can theater be used to share the words and stories[…]