*100 word minimum.Read the forward in your Disgraced script entitled “On Reading Plays” by Ayad Ahktar. Akhtar states:”The wonder of reading a play has to do with what dialogue offers and what it denies… In a play everything operates… the words are signals; they announce and evoke; as building blocks of a plan, they do not consummate, but rather promise; they direct, conceal, uncover.”He goes on to articulate that plays “leave space for the audience to complete the connection”This continues an ongoing discussion of theatricality, space (as in Parks ‘spells’ in In The Blood) and the necessary presence of the audience in the ‘co-creation of a work of theatre’: What did you conclude or imagine? Examples:- A series of stage directions regarding a characters actions over the course of the play.
– Moments of dialogue that stack up or build up to a greater understanding of the subtextual truth of a character or relationship between characters.
– A theatrical EVENT in a play.[An example from one of the plays on our extra credit list: Sideman by Warren Leight. In Sideman, Leight describes in italics that all of the actors sit listening to A Night In Tunisia for the entirety Clifford Browns trumpet solo. The playwright is very specific regarding the expressions, nudges, pokes, and nods of the characters. In an effort to visualize and comprehend, one might close their eyes and listen to the historical recording. Noting the colors, rhythms, and melodic motifs – each a different physical expression by the actors – the personal history and attachment to this piece of music by of each of these musicians is going to be emerging in facial expressions, gestures, and vocalization.]More sources:
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