...then 60 must be really something! In Chicago in February I'd say that would be doing very well indeed. Now I recall that the very first time I spent a February in this town (back in '76) there were a few days late in the month in the 70's--we were playing frisbee in bathing suits on the tall ice floes along Lake Michigan at Northwestern--but that is such an anomaly that it is hardly worth mentioning.
60 degrees in Chicago in February. I could deal with that. We did not quite get there today but it's something to strive for.
Of course, we're heading back down tomorrow...
E3H: We finished Portrait today. I will say that again. We finished Portrait today. All that remains are your projects. Good luck with them over the long weekend; they are due Wednesday.
More E3H notes: Those who still need to turn in blueprints and calendars for your capstone projects, here once again is the link to the project overview. There is a WW on Tuesday.
E2CP: Death of a Salesman scene projects begin now. It is critical that you start them this weekend and get huge chunks of them done. Waiting until after the four day weekend to get started is a horrible idea. We will be starting Catcher in the Rye on Thursday. There is a WW on Tuesday.
Drama: We welcome out newest member: way to survive the gauntlet. And BTW a smile goes out to Jessica for her official Full Membership after today's parodies. A word about my end-of-class comments: it is not that the re-done parody was not funny. It most certainly was, and I'm sure that the video will reveal that I was laughing as much as anyone. But it is not always about the laughs. It's more about the integrity of the performance: anyone can go for the cheap laughs, but trying to reclaim yuks you got "last time" only works sometimes, and today I think we saw what can occur when it ends up being too driven. Not just by Ross either: the whole class was intentionally asking the same questions as before, seeking the same results, and that is not improv. The crudely named frigate, for example, was far funnier the other day in its two or three fleeting mentions than today when the word was bandied about as if it were the whipped cream on a sundae. You simply cannot force that, and you shouldn't try.
Lesson over.
As to homework: Find a conversation, overheard or overseen. (Yes, it might be something you saw, very animated but words unknown to you.) Script it out exactly as Draft One. In Draft Two, tweak it so that it will play better as a scene with a beginning, middle and end. Then...
Find a Drama Class partner and get together to figure out how to perform your scene. You do not need to perform each other's scenes. In fact, since we have an odd number, that will not even work unless someone groups with a threesome. But try to come in Tuesday ready, with only a bit of warmup, to play them out. (And I want the scripts, of course.)
Know what else I want? Your journals!!!
Have a nice weekend. :-)
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