in class today

We'll have some scenes from The Hostage that people have proposed as worth discussing.  We'll discuss them. We'll also spend some time, if we have it, considering some of the postings to the Forum. Much discussion (and much of it pretty interesting and challenging) has already occurred on line; today, and on Friday, we'll see what issues we can explore profitably as we try to come to grips with our central questions about the differences and relations between scripts on the page and scripts on the stage.

down the road

Most people, perhaps all of us, have read and seen Unidentified Human Remains.  I'd like to structure a discussion that will allow us to make some sense of that experience in the way in which we're making it of our experiences of The Hostage, but, given our schedule, it's going to get cooled off pretty quickly.  I have an idea how we can come back after the break and still be able to remember enough, clearly enough, to spend some useful time discussing this script and production.  In the same way that we proposed scenes to discuss for The Hostage, posting them on course Web sites, let's propose some scenes from Unidentified Human Remains. But this time let's do it differently.  At the bottom of the Forum for the play I've created a section for proposing scenes for discussion.  As soon as you can -- but before "spring" break begins, anyway -- propose a scene from that play that you think would bear discussion, only this time propose it on the Forum rather than as a separate file on your Web site.  Then, before we meet again on March 12, respond thoughtfully, on the Forum, to at least two of the proposals for discussion. We'll begin with those at that class meeting.

learning journals

Although I don't think learning necessarily ends during "spring" break, I'll only be looking for one learning journal to be posted between last Sunday night and Sunday night, March 9/10. You can do it any time you like in that two-week period. But here's the trick: read all the ones posted so far, at the time you post your new one, and make your new entry as long as the longest one so far posted. And if while you're reading you think of something that constitutes learning that you hadn't thought of before, mention in your posting whose journal made you think of it.