FSB - Class # 8

Day 8: Writing for Performance
Naming the poetry chapbook, Discussion of Projects, Dramatic Scenes, Readers Theater, Guerilla Theater
* 15 minutes free write/rewrite on any piece
* 5 minutes to discuss names for the poetry chapbook that Bor is working on the layout
* Discuss the writing aspect of final projects
* Dramatic Scenes – 15 minutes to rehearse, then show to class and discuss the lines, characters and conflict

Definitions of Readers Theater
Readers’ theatre is a style of theatre in which the actors do not memorize their lines. Rather, they either go through their blocking holding scripts and reading off their lines, or else sit/stand together on a stage and read through the script together. In Reader's theatre, actors use vocal expression to help the audience understand the story rather than visual storytelling such as sets, costumes, and intricate blocking.

The performance of a literary work by an individual or group, wherein the text is read expressively, but not fully staged and acted out.

Examples of readers theater: Cask of Amontillado; The Last Drop; The Illiad.

Cask of Amontillado

The Last Drop

The Illiad


Guerilla Theater:
Noun 1. guerrilla theater - dramatization of a social issue; enacted outside in a park or on the street


Guerrilla theatre, or Guerrilla Performance, is a style of street theatre popularized in the mid-late 1960s, usually political in nature. Guerrilla (Spanish for "little war") describes the act of spontaneous, surprise performances in unlikely public spaces to an unsuspecting audience. .

Examples of guerilla theater:
Time Stands Still at Grand Central Station
Theater on the Subway
The Yes Men

IMPROVE NOW - GRAND CENTRAL STATION

YES MEN

IRAN PROTEST