Monday, March 05, 2018

March 5, 2018 - March 9, 2018 Weekly Agenda for Play Production

Monday, March 5th: 
Students work on the "Inciting Incident"
Worked with:
Orphans 
Kedase, Francisco, Daylan

Tuesday, March 6th:  

Journal: Who-What-Where-When-Why-How?
Describe any events, people, or places you discuss or mention in your scene!
Tomorrow:
The inciting incident for No Exit
Worked with Orphans – Kedase, Daylan, Francisco

Wednesday, March 7th: 

Theatre Games:
World’s Worst

Inciting Incidents:
No Exit – Emily, Tyler, Alice
Gave them info on how their characters died
Sent them outside to rehearse their inciting incidents.
They will perform on Friday.
Analysis of No Exit; how the characters died
Inez prefers to choose her own Hell, to look Garcin in the face and fight it out with him. Garcin announces that they should tell the truth about their lives: Maybe this will save them from disaster. Garcin mistreated his wife and eventually slept with another woman in his own house. Inez was living with her cousin, who was married to Florence. When the man got on their nerves, the women moved out and lived together. He was killed, and in despair, Florence turned the gas oven on one night, killing both Inez and herself. Inez had made Florence see things through her eyes, and this bitterness was too much for her. Hence, the suicide/murder; Inez is in Hell for her cruelty. Estelle had an affair with a man and became pregnant; she went to Switzerland for five months and gave birth to a daughter. Her lover, Roger, wanted the child, but Estelle didn't, so she drowned the child; later, she died of pneumonia. Roger shot himself in the head.

Garcin wonders if Estelle thinks that he was a coward for being a pacifist during the war. He wonders if he fled ("bolted" toward Mexico) because he was against war or because he was afraid. He decided, after he was caught, that his death would finally settle the matter, but then he admits that he faced even that moment rather badly. Again, Garcin hears his former colleagues at the newspaper talking about him: Even "the others" from his lifetime are a torture to him, and he cannot intervene in their conversations to defend himself. Additionally, he is not comforted by the idea that these men will eventually die because other men will replace them and perpetuate the belief that Garcin was a coward. His fate is in their hands. Can Estelle love him? Estelle says that she can love him, but only for his body: He has a manly chin, mouth, voice, and head of hair. He does not look like a coward. This overjoys him, and he prepares to leave Hell with her until they hear a shrill laugh: It is Inez, who prevents them from escaping. Garcin tries to leave through the door: He is ready to put up with red-hot tongs and molten lead — whatever torture "they" wish to subject him to, but he must leave this agony of mind. The door opens, and he is surprised; in fact, he is so stunned that he decides not to pass through it. Estelle tries pushing Inez through the door so she can have Garcin to herself, but he tells her to desist, that it's because of Inez that he is staying in the room. This catches Inez off-guard; he says that Inez knows what it's like to be a coward. He no longer hears the voices of people on earth, and he realizes that Inez is the same kind of person as he: It is she whom he must convince that he is not a coward. Estelle does not count: She is interested only in exterior appearances. He says to Inez: "If you'll have faith in me I'm saved." He spent his life trying to be a man, and Inez suggests that it was only a dream. He retorts that he made his choice deliberately, and that a man is what he wills himself to be. Inez enjoys her status as Garcin's torturer, and she taunts him with her evaluation of him as a coward.


Thursday, March 8th:
 Rehearsed with Flick - Chandler, Madeline, Vlad 
Did not finish; continue tomorrow 

Discussion of "The Inciting Event" with the following actors:
Jasmine and Elizabeth – Agnes of God
Katherine and Ivonne – "The Hereafter"



Friday, March 9th:
Standards: Developing characters
Target: Learning lines and developing character in preparation for performance
Agenda: 
Finish rehearsing Flick - Madeline, Chandler, and Vlad

The following actors will perform their "Inciting Event" 
Jasmine and Elizabeth - Agnes of God 

The following groups will perform their "Inciting Event" on Monday and Tuesday
Katherine and Ivonne - "The Hereafter" 
Chandler, Vlad, and Madeline – Flick
Grace and Jessica – Anton in Show Business

Reflection: Continue working on your "Who, What, Where, When, How" journals
Learn your lines! 

Line-up of "The Inciting Event" for next week: 

Monday, March 12th:
Alice, Emily, Tyler – No Exit 
Katherine and Ivonne - "The Hereafter" 

Tuesday, March 13th:
TBA – maybe “The Body” and/or “The Flick” 
Anton in Show Business

Wednesday, March 14th:
Michelle and Amy – The Break-in
Joan and Yubendi – This is Our Youth

Thursday, March 15th
Ty, Yubendi, and Pedro

Rehearsed with Orphans – Kedase, Daylan, Francisco

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