KRISTA D. PRICE

DAY 1 (first VIRTUAL day this week):

This week, we will begin our next unit:  STORY.  Our first activity in this unit will be to read a full-length play together (which we will do during our in-person classes.)  There are certain plot structures that work well for live theatre, and some that don't work as well.  Complete the two activities below to learn more about types/characteristics of plot structures, AND things you need to know when reading a play.   These two learning activities (listed below) should be completed BEFORE the end of the week to earn credit.

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1.) Read "How to Read a Play" and answer questions in Google Classroom CLASS NOTES (the reading is also available in your CLASS NOTES in Google Classroom - linked at the top of the page)

2.) Watch:  KP's Theatre Class - Plot and take notes in Google Classroom CLASS NOTES.

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DAY 2: (your only IN-PERSON day of this week; if ABSENT, read/do the following...)

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1.) Reviewed:  Is there a FORM to strong storytelling?  (Anecdote, Bait, etc.) 

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2.) Discussed:  If you switched from performing an ORIGINAL CONCEPT/IDEA to performing a SCRIPT, what would be the differences? 

• Discussed what a script LOOKS like and what it includes (character's name and what he/she says).  Discussed how scripts aren't meant to be read...they're meant to be SEEN.

• Discussed ways to better use your imagination while reading a script.

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3.) Learned about playwright Neil Simon and his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Lost in Yonkers. 

• If absent or quarantined, just know that Neil Simon is a well-known 20th century playwright who wrote many plays and screenplays.  Many of his plays were influenced by where he grew up (New York) and when he grew up (during/after the Great Depression). 

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4.) Discussed  the "world of the play" that we will be reading in class (Yonkers, New York, 1942) and the ways the play's characters may be influenced by that "world".

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5.) Read Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon.  If absent or quarantined, you MUST read what we read in class! 

Click the links below to read the Act I, Scene 1...

• Act I, Scene1, pgs 3-21 Exposition = the beginning of the play where we learn about the characters and their relationship to eachother

• Act I, Scene 1, pgs 21-26 Conflict = the moment that "unlocks" the plot/rising action of the play.  The first big conflict often drives the storyline of the play.

• Act I, Scene 1 - pgs 26-39 Build = the "rising action" in the story (in theatre it's called "build") - read through page 39

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