FAS110 | Drawing and Decorative Arts in Art - Saint Leo university
FAS110 Living the Theatre Final Project The project will be based on Water by the Spoonful (pages 403-435 in your textbook.) You will chooseone of the following jobs to fulfill: director, actor, designer, or administrator. Below are complete guidelines for each job. Remember, choose something that plays to your skill set or to skills that you wish to improve upon. If you have absolutely no ability to draw, you may still be able to design a costume through a collage rendering. Do not let your inexperience discourage you from trying something new! Director Your job is to write a
director’s concept for Water by the Spoonful addressing the following questions:
? What themes are present in Water by the Spoonful? How do you plan to highlight those themes? ? What is the mood/atmosphere of this piece? How do you plan to create that mood/atmosphere? ? What artifacts in the characters’ lives might be part of the physical environment? In what ways is the environment personalized? Is one character’s point of view more important than another’s in determining the details of the physical environment? Does someone seem to own or dominate the space? ? What are the basic actions of the characters in the play? What are the necessary entrances and exits and the physical actions that the stage space must accommodate and support? What importance will you give to the online portions of the play? How will you direct your designers to tackle the online world of the play?
The paper must be:
? Double-spaced ? In 12-point font ? Between 500 and 1000 words Submit this assignment to the Assignment box no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT of Module 8. (This Assignment box may be linked to Turnitin.) Actor You will choose one of the monologues on the next page to memorize and perform. You will record this performance with your digital camera, cell phone, web cam, etc. and place that recording in the Assignment box. Video files tend to be large, so upload times to the Assignment box will vary depending on your Internet connection speed. Before you submit your video, convert it to either a .wmv or .mov file as these file types will be most readily viewable by your instructor. There are many free video conversion software packages available on the Internet. Just search for, select, and download the one you want to use and follow the instructions for converting videos. You may want to compress your video as well. Like conversion software, there are many free compression software packages available on the Internet. You may choose from
the following monologues from Water by the Spoonful:
Elliot’s Monologue, p. 404 (cut for continuity’s sake) Yaz, you gotta help me with my mom. She cooked breakfast. The docs said she can’t be eating all that junk, it’ll mess with her chemo, so she crawls out of bed for the first time in days and cooks eggs for breakfast. In two inches of pork chop fat. I’m like, mom, recycle glass and plastic, not grease. She thinks putting the egg on top of a paper towel after you cook it makes it healthy. I told her, mom you gotta cook egg whites. In Pam spray. But it has to be her way. Like, “That’s how we ate them in Puerto Rico and we turned out fine.” You gotta talk to her. I’m trying to teach her about quinoa. Broccoli rabe. So I get home the other day, she had made quinoa with bacon. She was like, “It’s healthy!” I gave those eggs to the dogs when she went to the bathroom. or Yaz’s monologue, p. 413 (cut for continuity’s sake) They should have a frequent flower card. They punch a hole. Buy nine funeral bouquets, get the tenth free. We’d be living in a house full of lilies. Look at that guy. Arranging his daisies like little treasures. What do you think it’s like to be him? To be normal? I bet his family funerals are rare occasions. I bet he’s never seen a cousin get arrested. Let alone one under the age of eighteen. I bet he never saw his eight-year-old cousin sipping rum through a twisty straw or…I just remembered this time cousin Maria was babysitting me… I was dyeing her hair. I had never dyed hair before so I asked her to read me the next step and she handed me the box and said, “You read it.” And I said, “My rubber gloves are covered in toxic goop, I can’t really hold that right now.” And so she held it in front of my eyes and said, “You gonna have to read it.” I said, “But you graduated from high school.” She sad, “They just pass you, I just stood in the back.” I was in fourth grade. I could read! You must also submit a character analysis of your character that addresses the questions provided for character analysis in your textbook on page 479. NOTE: Sometimes you have to fill in the gaps; the playwright may not give you all of the information. The analysis must be double-spaced and in 12-point font. Submit the video and analysis as separate files to the Assignment box no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT of Module 8. (This Assignment box may be linked to Turnitin.) Designer If you choose to play the role of the designer, you may choose between sets or costumes. Whether you choose sets or costumes, you must submit a written design concept for Water by the Spoonful in addition to a rendering that visually communicates your idea. Set Design Your concept should