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1. Describe the central conflict of the required performance viewing option you were assigned as you understood it from the production. (See text pg. 33 for definitions.) Give specific examples to support your conclusions.
2. Describe the actors' use of "the actor's instrument" (See text pgs. 46-49 for definitions) in their performances. How did the actors use voices and bodies to create characters? How did their work communicate with the audience? Were they successful in creating characters- is so why and if not why not? Give specific examples to support your conclusions.
3. Examining the work of the costume designer- evaluate the effectiveness of the design choices made in the production. (See text Ch. for design definitions.) Did the costume design work in supporting the production? What information could you gain from the costume design choices made? If something did or didn't work- why or why not? Give specific examples to support your conclusions.
4. Examining the work of the lighting designer- evaluate the effectiveness of the design choices made in the production. (See text Ch. for design definitions.) Did the lighting design work in supporting the production? What information could you gain from the lighting design choices made? If something did or didn't work- why or why not? (This may spill over to use of projections if projections were used.) Give specific examples to support your conclusions.
5. Examining the director's work- what specific elements of staging within the production stick out in your mind and what made them memorable? (See text pg. 166 for staging examples.) Be sure to include specific supporting examples from the production.
6. Describe, in specific detail, the final moments of the play in terms of actual events as well as how those events related to the central conflict. Was the central conflict resolved? If so- how?
If not- why do you think it was not resolved? Give specific examples to support your conclusions.
7. Please offer your thoughts as to why the University of Illinois Department of Theatre might choose to produce their own live production of the required performance viewing option you were assigned. Would this be something college students should perform? Would this offer something interesting to a college community to see such a performance live? Support your conclusions with specific examples.
8. What do you feel this production of the required performance viewing option you were assigned communicated to the audience? Support your conclusions with specific examples.
9. What appealed to you about the production and why? (You don't have to "like" the whole production, but we do want you to focus on at least some things that appealed to you. Provide specific examples and explain why.)