A presentation postponed

I'd thought we would have a presentation from the Task Force on David Hare's Fanshen this morning, but for a couple of reasons, including the fact that the group is now down to two people, we're going to put it off till Friday.

Here's an opportunity: if you missed participating in a Task Force, or felt you could have done better and learned more if you had a second chance, or if you'd just like to do it again, or if you're on the Editorial Team and would like to help out with this part, too, let me (or Nigel or Kirsten) know this morning. What you'd need to do is do some research on Hare, the play, or its context (in this case the context is especially rich, as you'll know if you've read the script), save your work on on the wiki, and then help in assembling the main page and telling the rest of us about it.

This morning

There were a dozen choices of postings on reading plays that got chosen and emailed to me during last Friday's class. I've assembled and printed them. I'll divide the class into four or five groups, and give each group a set of a half dozen or so of the choices to read. Each page includes both the original posting and the explanation by the person who chose it. Read the ones you  have, discuss them with the group at the table. After we've had a chance to do that we'll do a round of the class to see what patterns we can see -- what sort of thing makes a good (informative, persuasive, engaging) reflection on reading a script? I'll put each posting anybody has anything to say about up on the screen, so we can all see the text and discuss it.

Deadlines upcoming

If you saw Black Comedy, write about it today; respond to two other reflections before the end of the week.

The Task Force on Autobahn should be working on the wiki (and should have posted on reading the script), and should be ready to present next Wednesday (we can't wait longer because the show is in Saint John and the Companions have to get down there ahead of time).

midterm reassessment

If there's time, I'll take questions about the document on reading, and writing, learning reflections. Much of what we say about writing reflections on reading scripts will, I suspect, be relevant. We'll talk further about it on Friday.