1, Extra Credit: AUDIENCE, DESIGN, DIRECTING Attached Files: Extra Credit Audience, Design, Director.pdf (61.143 KB) EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT: AUDIENCE, DESIGN, DIRECTING Answering each prompt below will be worth ONE point of Extra Credit, for up to FOUR points of extra credit total. Please upload your answers here, through the ASSIGNMENTS portal. To receive full credit, please complete this by Friday October 11. Please number your answers, 1-4. 1. WHAT IS AUDIENCE? There are three essays in this packet, and each author seems to have a different view of the role of the audience in theater. In a few sentences, compare two of these conceptions: what are the differences in how these theorists conceive of the audience? (Please compare Boal to Clurman, or Boal to Dolan, or Dolan to Clurman.) 2. WHAT IS DESIGN? Please notate two quotations, each from a different author in the packet, that you either did not understand fully, or find interesting and worth discussing. Now that you have thought about these quotations, what do you think they are trying to express? In general, how have these readings affected your ideas about the role of design in theater? Do you have a different sense of what “good design†means now that you have read this material? Please answer in a few sentences. 3. & 4.WHAT IS DIRECTING? 3. List ONE tip/piece of advice that William Ball gives to directors. Explain Ball’s rationale for this one piece of advice in a few sentences. 4. What does Michael Bloom mean when he describes the director as a STORYTELLER? What qualities of character does Bloom suggest a director should have? Please respond in a few sentences. 2, FINAL EXTRA CREDIT option for THA101. For up to 5 points of extra credit , there are TWO options (you may only choose one): Option 1 : You may expand your written response to either TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992 or FIFTH OF JULY to a short essay of about 600 words. (You must complete the original response to my prompt about these video-recordings first, in order to qualify for this extra credit option.) This essay should thoughtfully incorporate a short quotation from at least ONE of the essays in the “What is (element of theater)?†(performance, theater, acting, audience, design, or directing) section of the course. For example, you could talk about Twilight as an example of Grotowski’s “Poor Theater,†because the main focus is on the acting and the relationship between actor and audience rather than on design (it might also qualifies as “poor theater†because it utilizes a cast of only one actor, and breaks the fourth wall repeatedly, keeping the audience engaged with the actor.) Conversely, you could integrate a quotation from Auslander’s “Liveness†essay, and discuss how Deveare Smith integrates video recordings from a past event into her theater piece, which makes it more of a “multimedia†performance (this would contradict the argument that it is truly “poor theater.â€) Another example: you could discuss Fifth of July i n terms of its acting, direction, or the various visually-designed production elements including set, costume, lighting, etc. (For example: the play moves from inside to outdoors between the two acts: how does this setting change impact the story? how does the setting impact the theme or message of the play? how do Shirley’s costumes impact the theme of the play? etc.) Please upload the essay in MS Word or PDF form only, and be sure that your essay includes a SHORT quotation from one of the secondary readings that is artfully integrated into your discussion.
