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ASSIGNMENT ONE: Respond to the three clips, and make sure your response includes to the questions listed at the bottom:
Clip #1: Stratford Festival Production, 2018
This production is from the Stratford Festival that happens every year in Ontario, Canada. In this production, Prospero is played by a woman Clip #2: Royal Shakespeare Company, 2016
This production is by the Royal Shakespeare Company, a major British theatre company headquartered in Shakespeare's home town of Stratford-upon-Avon in England.
Clip #3: Donmar Warehouse, 2012
Donmar Warehouse is a small, cutting-edge theatre in London that specializes in new plays and new approaches to old plays. In this production from 2012, The Tempest is set in a women's prison with an all-female cast.
Questions:
#1) How are the characters of Miranda and Ferdinand portrayed differently in each production? Are they innocent and childlike? Wary and stand-offish? Mature and romantic?
#2) What kind of "environment" have the designers created for each production? What kinds of different moods do these environments bring to the different productions?
#3) What was the director's unique approach to each of these productions? That is, what is the sum total effect of the casting, design and acting choices you see here? How does each different approach cast the play in a slightly different way?
ASSIGNMENT TWO
Film: Frankenstein
Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered Creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal.
Questions:
#1) Who is the "protagonist" in this play? Is it Dr. Frankenstein? Is it The Creature?
#2) How is "protagonist" different from "hero"? Back up your argument with support from the play (make sure it is from the play and not from the novel or any of the film versions, which may have a different protagonist).
ASSIGNMENT THREE
Film: Our Town
Questions:
#1) What is significant about the way this play is "staged?"
#2) Why do you think the playwright was so intent on creating a piece of theatre that uses so little "set?"
#3) How does that align with what you understand to be the themes and message of the play?