Playwriting – HW 1/26-2/11

Tuesday 1/26: Ten-Minute Play Portfolio due.  Discuss Fires in the Mirror — Foreword (process), character, setting, voice and language.

HW: Read and annotate FITM pp. 40-77.

Wednesday 1/27: Discuss and perform selected scenes from Fires in the Mirror.

HW: Read and annotate Fires in the Mirror, pp. 79-112.

Thursday 1/28: Discuss and perform selected scenes from Fires in the Mirror.  Discuss “Character Study” handout.

HW: Finish reading Fires in the Mirror, pp. 113-139.

Friday 1/29: Write FF #6: Creating a Character (see handout for details).

HW: Write FF #7: Anna Deavere Smith’s three essential questions.  Begin writing your character monologue (see handout for details).

Monday 2/1: NO CLASS

Tuesday 2/2: Share writing.  Character improvisations.

HW: Write FF #8: Motivation.  Finish writing character monologue.

Wednesday 2/3: Character Monologue draft due.  Peer editing/individual meetings with Julia.

HW: Rehearse character monologue for performance/critique.

Thursday 2/4: Character Monologue performance and critique.

HW: Revise character monologue as necessary. Write one étude (see handout for details).

Friday 2/5: Character Monologue performance and critique.

HW: Revise character monologue as necessary. Write one étude (see handout for details).

Monday 2/8: NO CLASS

Tuesday 2/9: Character Monologue performance and critique.

HW: Revise character monologue as necessary. Write process piece.

Wednesday 2/10: Peer editing/individual meetings.

HW: Write process piece.  Assemble portfolio for submission on Thursday, 2/11.

Thursday 2/11: Character Monologue Portfolio due.  Share/discuss one-act plays.  Introduction to John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation.