Notes 10/31

1. Questions to ask:

• Focus too much on language-make it hard to understand the characters.
• Focus too much on characters make-it so easy to understand the language.
• Imagine a stage in front of your eyes.
• Think more details about the state( is it external or interior and etc).
• Ask about time. (Changes or stays the same? change by day? year? and etc)
• Ask about the climates on the planet. (weather conditions.)
• Ask about the mood in the play. Think about the tone of the play.
• Think about the answers to the questions above and relate it to the world you see.

2. the social world of a play;

• Pay attention to the arrangement of the objects on this planet and try to find a pattern of it.
• How do the figures appear and compare them to the figures you see in the world.
• How do people dress in the play? Compare and contrast with the way you see people dress in the world.
• Think about the relationships among the figures and how that affected the interactions among them.
• Who’s in charge?
• What language do people speak?

3. What changes:

• The “changes” refers to the differences that appears as the play goes on.
• Change of the space that the play takes place?
• Change of the time/ages?
• Change of the langueage? (Tone, mood and etc)
• Change of the action?
• The thing that stays the same?/Didn’t change?
• Analyze the changes and figur out what it might represent.

4. Don’t forget yourself:

• Ask yourself how you changed as you see the play goes on. (Opinion toward the characters? Does the play ask for any thing? Do you want to take any action after seeing the play? Does you mood get affected by the play? And etc.)

5. Theatical Mirrors:

• Does the play reminds you of any other types of shows that you had seen in the past?
• Compare and contrast the play to another play that you had seen.

6. The character fits the pattern:

• Remember that nothing in the play is an accident. Try to relate the patterns that you think doesn’t “fit” the characters and think of the significance of that scene.
• Think what the characteristics that the world in the play gave each characters are.