October 31, 2012

Warm Up: What did you learn about design in the first quarter? What left

you completely flummoxed.

Objective: Students will review again how to create designs on stage.

Starting over or review

• Presenting the stage on paper– Scale– Template– Rulers

• Considerations for Audience– Orientation– Location– Levels

Sample Play• Mood: helpless oppression of poverty, abuse, and mental illness.• Theme: To break the cycle, you have to stand up for yourself first.• Given Circumstances:

– Time: 1941, July, evenings after work– Place: A basement apartment in a lower ward of New Orleans, the

living/family room– Society: Hardworking, poor lower class, women are expected to submit to

their man in everyway. A woman without a man is useless.– Economics: poor, hardworking, struggling to make ends meet– Intellect/Culture: uneducated, not clever nor smart. Man is quick to anger,

Woman is scared of him.– Politics/Law: domestic violence – Spirituality: what kind of person beats their wife when they screw up? How

does one justify that to themselves?