Wednesday, January 5, 2010

Today, you were given the book On Stage 1. I then had you flip to the play we will be studying (A Thousand Clowns) and we examined it for length, layout and characters. I then had you flip to page nine where there is a visual of a modern stage. We then read the stage directions at the beginning of the play. From here, you were put into groups of three and given a diorama of a stage. You then had to make a list of the props indicated in the stage directions, highlight them to match them up by some sort of created category (ie: furniture in yellow, paper products in green), you then had to cut out boxes to represent the props and label what they are. Finally, using tape, you had to place them correctly on the stage provided. The purpose is to help you have an understanding of the layout so you can visualize it while we are reading it.