200 words for 413 "Not just about Mathew Shepard" (Kerry) notes for PM : TU 11.25.08 1.05

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College Production -- Brechtian EXPIRIENCE

Does it make me think?

Issues

Topics

Problems

Subjects

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Aritostole + Brecht

Script Analysis ["blue prints and challenges of the 3 timelines ]

Actors & Text
Characterization, master gesture: journalists, but nobody takes notes.

Direction

Design : Set, Costume, Light, Sound

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laramie notes

... dramaturgy
[ 11.12.08 dress ]

title -- "project"?

< Do we care for facts? What are "facts"? > "True story"

We and Brecht -- instead of TV and internet chat rooms.

No Am. political theatre? Stage vs. Media (Journalism)

Social investigation -- "Project" = investigation, and -- conclusions?
What is "hate"? Hate Crime Law [ putting a face to it ]
Public has to answer the "right questions" [ Doctor's analogy by Anton Chekhov about diagnosis ]

Who (what) is America -- end of the American (XX) Century.

... "Colors of Violence, Made in USA"

QUESTIONS for PM discussion :

Criteria -- measure of success -- the changes!

What did I learned?

How does it (theatre experience, show) changed me?

As a human

Actor

An American

Better citizen?