May 21, 2018 - May 25, 2018 Weekly Agenda

Tuesday, May 22nd:

 Presentations of Rough Drafts:
1. Elizabeth: Nurse who is talking to her father about her difficulties of her job
Comments, discussion, and critiques

2. Brana: Orphaned seventeen-year old looking for love
Comments, discussion, critiques

3. Michelle: Confronting her father about his emotional abandonment of her and the real abandonment of her mother and the lies he told about her mother.
 Comments, discussion, critiques

4. Amy: African-American nurse abused by her parents
Comments, discussion, critiques

5. Yubendi - old, blind, homeless woman talking to street photographer
Comments, discussion, critiques

6. Madaline - Runaway whose middle-class parents are alcoholic and addicted to prescription drugs.  Her nineteen year old brother is leaving as well but is essentially abandoning her to the streets.
Comments, discussion, critiques

7. Angel - Psychotic man talking to imaginary people about his "wife and daughter".  Feels guilt over the death of his wife. He and his wife never had a daughter.
Helpers: Alice and Jackie
Comments, discussion, critiques

8. Kedase - Pro-wrestler who is also moving drugs for a druglord whose inventory is suspiciously running low.  The wrestler is confessing to a priest what he is about to do - which is to kill the druglord before the druglord  kills him.
Comments, discussion, critiques

9. Tyler - Steven La Croix, 39, seven-time Grammy Award winner, has serious medical issues.
Comments, discussion, critiques

10. Alice - College graduate in a wheelchair; scared about the future.
Comments, discussion, critiques


Thursday, May 24th:
Periods 1, 3, and 5

Work on their monologues

Presentations of Self-Written Monologues:  

Carter:  Syrian-American teenager speaking passionately in a support group

Vlad: Danesh, a 40 year-old hospital orderly from Bangladesh who hates  his

boss Patricia

Francisco: John Polaris, 69 year-old special-ed teacher talking about his student.

            Jessica: Bank robber turning himself into the police

Katherine – Latina fashionista working in the fashion industry whose work has been sabotaged and vandalized by jealous whites

New Scenes:

Geography of a Horse Dreamer – Daylan

The Gingerbread Lady – Jessica and Sofia

Good Will Hunting –

Swingers – Vlad and Yubendi

True West – Kedase and Tyler

Beyond Your Command - f/m
Big Time - f/m
 Devil Boys - four roles: 2 males, 2 females
'Night, Mother - 2 females

The Woolgatherer – Grace

Friday, May 25th:
Regular schedule
Guest Teacher: John Tourtellotte led the class into an acting analysis of the prologue of Shakespeare's Henry V.