Image Research Written Response (Due 11/21)

Your pre-Thanksgiving assignment is to "transfer edit" your Fuchs analysis of the visual research gathered from the library.  This is where you take your hand-written notes from your in-class observations and type them out on the computer in complete thoughts and sentences. Edit, format, and refine as you go.

As a reminder of what we did in class: Survey each of the collections - Mephisto, Faustus, and Electric Light. Treating each of these collections as a mini-planet, use Fuchs' technique and describe how you imagine the world of the play from the following Fuchs perspectives:

• The World of the Play: First Things First 
• What Changes? 
• The Character Fits the Pattern

If you were not in class or would like to re-visit the fascinating collections of materials that you all gathered, we've posted the images on the blog.

Since we do not have class this week, assignment is due via email by 11:59 PM, Wednesday November 21st, 2012. Email your assignment to theaterconversations@gmail.com.

Have a happy Thanksgiving and see you all next week!

Viewing Assignment: Extremely Public Displays of Privacy (DUE 10/17)

Photo by Fess Elliot

Many of the examples of collage that we've looked at are materials-based, i.e. paper, photos, assemblage, or language-based, i.e. words, text. For this next assignment, we invite you to consider how theatrical experiences are collaged.

In advance of next week's visiting artist, New Paradise Laboratories Artistic Director Whit MacLaughlin, view their latest work, Extremely Public Displays of Privacy.  Act 1 of this innovative theatrical piece is viewable entirely online at http://extremelypublicdisplays.com.  The 2nd and 3rd acts are partially viewable online.

After you "watch" Extremely Public Displays of Privacy, respond in writing to the following questions:

Audience - Given that this play is a mixture of online and in-person performance, discuss what it is to be an audience of the show. How does one experience the show? How does its use of media and technology influence your processing/interpretation of the show?

Artist - Similarly, imagine yourself as one of the creators of this work. How might its mixture of online and in-person performance change the work of the artist/author/designer/director?

Production and Management - And lastly, how might its mix of online and in-person experience impact how the show is produced, managed, and organized? How would producing and managing this show be different from a typical theatrical piece in a physical theater?

Responses should be minimum one page in length, single spaced. As always, typed, paginated, printed, and stapled. Due next class on 10/17.