Tuesday’s Class
Hi everyone, what a terrific group of posts! It’s clear that you all have a strong handle on the play and its intricacies as well as it occasional weaknesses, so I think we can focus on significant scenes by having each of you prepare ones you want “staged” and then discuss it. Collectively, you have highlighted a number of them but try picking 1 or 2 that you want to direct (and act in too). This will be a mix of the seminar participation that I have been emphasizing lately with you each taking a teacher’s role and a means to do justice to the play, which should be acted out rather than simply read. Some of you will, most likely, choose the same scene—and that would work out well time wise and also because most scenes involve a couple of characters.
Also, when you are explaining why you have chosen a certain scene, be sure to explain its context in relation to the documents and essays that you have written about so astutely in the posts. Together, the play and the readings accent the themes of ethical and political deliberation amidst multiple power relations that we have been talking about all along, but perhaps here most directly. I’m looking forward to an exciting class. Lee
