A Playgoers' Companion
It wasn't clear that the proposed Playgoers' Companions (or, really,
wiki pages) were all ready for choosing on Monday morning, so I postponed
assessing them till yesterday. I've made some tentative decisions, but
I think (as I usually think) that it's almost always the case that people
learn more by being placed in the position of teacher than they do by being
left in the position of student, so here's what I propose for this morning:
you think about which of the five possibilities you'd propose -- and, most
important, why. I've created some groups each of which (as far as possible)
includes someone from each of the groups designated to create the wikis
in the first place. Here they are:
| Group A
Amber Carroll Randall Umali Brandon Thibodeau Jesse Middleton John Russell Erica Betts |
Group B
Katie Dow Emily Cochrane Valerie Chisholm Josie Blackmore Ashley MacDonald Lisa Schellenberg |
Group C
Alexander Brown Jilly Hanson Matt Goodwin Erin Pollock Luke Tucker Adam Washburn |
Group D
Vanessa Whittaker Juliana Duque Elyse Bernais Andrea Peters Lucas Martin |
Group E
Sara Garrett Megan Wilson Georgia Priestley-Brown Kirsten Graham Kenneth Noble Nigel Bone |
I'll give each group a printout of all five proposed texts. Your job is to make your own decision. Which of these is the one you'd like most to see properly formatted, laid out, broken up with graphics, and printed? And, most important, why? Discuss it, and agree on one, and a clear, persuasive statement of what you -- as a group -- agree makes it more likely to be of use to that mythical theatregoer sitting down in Memorial Hall tonight. (if, as a footnote, you want to suggest a close second, or a way of combining two to make the best possible Companion, you can add that as a footnote: but finally, you have to decide on one, and some clear reasons). I'll give each group a report form.
Preferences about plays to work on (continued)
As I said Friday, we need to be planning for who is going to work on research, and Playgoers' companions, for which plays. The list is pretty nearly final (there've been a couple of changes since then). Right now, the plays include ones listed on the course list of plays (reproduced here):
Task Forces
Based on the emailed preferences I had received this morning, and a
random distribution of the rest, here are six lists of people whowill form
the Task Force (research group) for each of the six plays we have available.
(Unless changes are made this morning; if you want to swap with someone,
both of you should give me a note at the end of class or email me this
morning).
| Perfect Pie
Emily Cochrane Juliana Duque Ashley MacDonald Randall Umali Elyse Bernais |
Heart's Desire
Katie Dow Alexander Brown Megan Wilson Lucas Martin Kenneth Noble |
Inspector Hound
Adam Washburn Amber Carroll Erica Betts Vanessa Whittaker Luke Tucker |
Black Comedy
Andrea Peters Jilly Hanson Jesse Middleton Lisa Schellenberg Brandon Thibodeau |
TBA
Nigel Bone Kirsten Graham John Russell Sara Garrett Erin Pollock |
Autobahn
Matt Goodwin Georgia Priestley-Brown Josie Blackmore Valerie Chisholm |
Scripts for all these plays will be available as soon as possible, I hope by the end of this week (TBA, however, may take a bit longer).
Attending plays: an addition
I did not know that Saint John Theatre Company was going to put on Copenhagen (a wonderful play, by a superlative playwright: Google it, and him) until late last week. But because they are, I want to make sure it's possible for us to use the play as one of our possible shows to read about and attend. A problem, however, is that unless there are at least four people who read the script and attend the show, there really can't be an online discussion of reading and seeing it. I expect that I'll be going to see the show, and if there were (at least) three others who were interested, I would participate in the online discussion of it. I have a script, and can make copies available. If you are interested, email me before the end of this week.