I use this page for reflections, when the class is over. This is an extention of the NOTES page, which I update through the semester.
There are several names and titles are missing: Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Moliere... Sometimes I can squeez an extra play, but it takes a week to cover any extra text...
Some lose pages, like Lorca -- I like him, I directed The House of Bernarda Alba, but no time for him in both drama classes.
I placed some links into the popup window; the theory pages related to script analysis. We end up with the social (historical) commentaries on our reality (most recent titles like "How I Learned to Drive"). This is why I have a subtitle to Grammar of Drama: Script Analysis of the Last Century.
Summary
There are several way to go from here. Directing, Acting pages?
Questions
What's next? Well, I wrote drama pages for theatre majors; go to your directories -- acting, directing, film...
* In addition to the dramaturgue pages. I have to work on playwrighting pages!
Virtual Theatres: An Introduction by Gabriella Giannachi; Routledge, 2004 - 1: Hypertextualities
- 2: Cyborg Theatre
- 3: The (Re-)Creation of Nature
- 4: Performing Through the Hypersurface
- 5: Towards an Aesthetic of Virtual Reality
2004: I am tired of webpages. I am waiting for the time, when I can use them for writing, not notes. When? I don't know. Where is this time?
Not even on this PS page? Not even at the end of the journey through so many great plays? Something is wrong. The narrative should give a birth to itself!
Especially, the history of drama came to its post-historical phaze.
So, what was this 25 centuries long story about?
You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough. ~William Blake, Proverbs of Hell [ Read! ]
Part 4. Writing 1. Idea (proposal)
2. Outline (oral presentation in class)
3. Scenes, monologues
4. First Draft
5. Rewrites
6. Final Draft (class), mant drafts after it...
addresses (sample): script.vtheatre.net/413/1/1.html -- part I, lesson 1
Theme-thought, according to different playwrights (Shakespeare, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov and so on) and directors (Fillini, Kurosawa, Tarkovsky, Bergman pages).
Connections with other themes (list): family, gender and sex...
Finally, my own practical investigations: shows.vtheatre.net (only recently I began to make themes pages, Don Juan 2003, for example).
And the nonfiction (writing), of course: HIM, Father-Russia, PostAmeriKa, Self, POV, Tech (gatepages are in WRITE directory).
Yeah, yeah, there is more -- "philo" pages, metaphysics: in theatre theory directory, for instance (topics-bar: space, time and etc.)
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Mostly questions to myself... (the next time I teach it -- Playscript -- Fall 2006).
The biggest question for myself -- am I commiting myself to write another textbook (Script Analysis for Actors and Directors)?
Questions? Write them down!
[very important questions I write in big letters -- and post them on the walls of my appartment!]
Homework
Read plays! Even when you are not in college anymore.
Or better, much better -- write the plays!
NB
Come back later -- new texts. I'll post them (from the class notes).
