Monday, May 28, 2018

May 29, 2018 - June 1, 2018 Weekly Agenda for Play Production

Tuesday, May 29th: 
These are the self-written monologues that have yet to be presented: 

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. Madeline - 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

1:30 - visit from Tim Landfield from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts to discuss the summer program for high school students.

Presentation of Self-Written Monologue:
Jackie - young gay man who has been rejected by his mother who has chosen her lover over him.

Pass out scenes for Play Production final

Wednesday, May 30th: 
Scenes for Play Production Finals: 
Agnes of God – Elizabeth and Jasmine
            Beyond Your Command – Jackie and Yaslynn
            Big Time – Jackie and Yaslynn
            Butterflies are Free – Francisco and Grace
            Devil Boys! – Angel, Brana, Alice, and Pedro
            Emily – Ivonne and Michelle
            Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune – Angel and Grace
Good Will Hunting – Daylan
The Gingerbread Lady – Jessica and Sofia
A Girl’s Guide to Chaos – Amy and Emily
Good Will Hunting – Daylan and Joan
Millenium Approaches – Carter and Chandler
‘Night, Mother – Alice and Katherine
Perestroika – Carter and Chandler
Swingers – Vlad and Yubendi
True West – Kedase and Tyler
The Woolgatherer – Madaline and Ty

Presentations of Self-Written Monologues:

Chandler – visiting the first restaurant his father had built years ago when Chandler was a child.
Discussions and Critiques

Ivonne – a psychopathic/narcissistic surgeon, bored with perfection, confesses to his therapist that he killed a patient for kicks during surgery.
Discussions and Critiques 


Michelle – at her mother’s death bed expressing her sorrow over her father’s treatment of them.
Discussions and Critiques

Thursday, May 31st: 


Presentations of Self-Written Monologues:
Jasmine: young pregnant teen telling her mother that she makes her feel worthless and unloved because of her situation.

Discussion, critiques 

Katherine: Doctor speaking of a devastating experience of accidentally killing a little girl dying of leukemia.  Distracted by a brutal divorce, she unintentionally gives the wrong shot to a little girl, who suffers horribly before dying.

Discussion, critiques

Friday, June 1st: 


Presentation of self-written monologues: 
Jessica – Confessions of a Bank Robber

Discussion and Critiques 

Presentations of Senior Scenes:
 Agnes of God – Elizabeth and Jasmine

Discussion and Critiques 

Angels in America: The Millenium Approaches
Carter and Chandler
Angels in America: Perestroika

Carter and Chandler

Discussion and Critiques 




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