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2009 : CALIGARI in class
2008 class : concept assignments ...
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2007 -- thinkig about "Utopia" (conceptualization).
* Ahart, Part 3, pp. 119- "Waiting for Godot" Analysis: Go.dot UAF
Reading in class : tragicomedy in 2 acts (genre: comedy + tragedy) [ but NOT drama? ]
Beckett' Style (minimalism) + Absurd (Philosophy -- Existentialism) Audience as a partner, dialogue with characters only through them! Public do not answer = godot-like. They are Godot... How to make it into METHOD? Hero = Audience. Finally, the great theatre secret is reveled. ... images : maze, wall, crossroad...
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A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past? That holy dream - that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding. What though that light, thro' storm and night, So trembled from afar What could there be more purely bright In Truth's day-star?and monologues to stage from HAMLET
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Return to overview of "director's functions": transition to Part 2. Directing ActorsCharacter as Idea (Tragic and Comic Hero).[ read part 3. in your textbook for analysis ]
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Godot, p.1
A country road . A tree . Evening.
Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. He pulls at it with both hands, panting. He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries again.
As before.
Enter Vladimir.
ESTRAGON:
(giving up again). Nothing to be done. Beckett Pages and Godot'06:
Concept (Genre) -- playwright directions.
Characters -- preparations for working with actors.
Set Ideas (according to Beckett) : places = symbols
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Scenes in class : ... Menagerie (7), Gogot (Ending), Hamlet (3.2?)
floor plan (directing space).
