Assessing where we are

Because it turned out I didn't have a usable record of what people signed up for, and people were not always aware of who else was signed up to do final edits, it's not clear what we have available right now and what still needs to be done.  We'll do a census of what's there, arrange to get the ones that aren't done in place, and have a look at the ones that we've got in order to see what else they might need.

One thing we need in a number of cases is going to be an indication of where text was drawn from.  While we have, as I said when we were assembling the guide for The Rover, no need to make sure that every piece of text is either quoted or original, we do need to acknowledge that the information we're offering comes from somewhere other than our own deep knowledge of the theatre. If we haven't got the information about where text is drawn from we'll need to find it.

As a last minute check, you should take notes of what you see needs to be done to each of the draft guides, transcribe your notes to an email, and send them to the class list (hunt2223@stu.ca) before the end of the day today. I'll assemble it all and post it on the Web site and email the list to let you know where it is.  With luck, we'll have copies Friday morning.

For Friday

In preparation for attending the performance of the ten plays, let's go back to the scripts.  Reread as many as you can, and, before Friday at class time, post at least one suggestion for a section of a play -- anything from a few lines to a couple of dozen -- that you'd like to draw to everybody's attention. As you choose your scene, think about it from the point of view of this class's concerns: what theatregoers bring to them to the theatre, what their expectations might be, how the work as it sits on the stage might pose problems for the stage, etc. Transcribe the section of the text you're proposing we discuss into a file, head it with your name, the name of the play, and if it makes sense the page or other indication of the location in the text), and save it to your engl2223 folder with the filename discuss.htm. Be prepared to explain on Friday morning why you think it would be useful to talk about it before we see what Ilkay and her class have done with it.