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E3H...

We're smack dab in the middle of a discussion of what Aristotle thought was the most important stuff to deal with when thinking about tragedy. One element of particular importance, he noted, was audience, and I mentioned today that our buddy Stephen Dedalus also thought audience of some significance, as he discussed in Chapter Five the notion of bringing about the tragic emotions of pity and fear. We'll be talking about that (and other things) tomorrow...and maybe online tonight?

E2H...

We got ourselves all caught up in the middle of Willy's dreamworld. Tomorrow we have to start sorting it out. We're going to start taking this play apart scene by scene to figure out what the heck is going on. Meanwhile, tonight, there are several new thematically diverse boards open for your discussion pleasure.

Drama...

Here is your assignment for tonight, for performance in class tomorrow. (Let's see how many of you are actually checking this thing!)

Prepare the following short improv:

1. enter an imaginary classrooom
2. look for a place to sit
3. move past "others" to sit down
4. once seated. change your mind and take a different chair
5. interact with an imagined classmate
6. take notes on a lecture or discussion
7. attempt to get the teacher's attention, but fail
8. do something interesting!
9. let something in the circumstances make you angry
10. leave the imaginary classroom

Note: the leaving should not be due to the end of the period; you decide to leave. As far as "doing something interesting" is concerned, try to keep it at least remotely possible that it could happen within the scene you're creating; let it spring from being ignored, for example. It's always better to stay within the scene than to impose something from outside.

Practice this. (Of course, silly: You always practice a performance!)

j: tranquil nights
music: nights in white satin--moody blues

--kt