CLST 283-WI: Classical Comedy and Satire
Spring Semester 2003
Dr. Jacqueline Long
Performances
Goals
- To collaborate in a creative endeavor complementing course work
- To experiment with performance of Classical comedy and satire
- To share your insights with your classmates through performance
- To reflect on the processes of insight, performance, and Classical
comedy or satire, in light of a specific, shared creative experience
- To have fun doing it
For the performance:
Members of the performance team, jointly in consultation with one
another
- select and adapt section(s) of the work you have agreed to present
- your selections should represent aspects of the work as a
whole that you consider interesting and important for what they reflect
about the concepts and operation of Classical comedy and satire
- feel free to adapt your selections creatively to make for an
effective performance: connect, condense, transpose, enhance!
- your adapted selections will need to be possible to perform in
class, with available resources, within 15-20 minutes of class time
- decide what members of the group will do to perform your selections, so
as to bring out their interesting and important aspects and engage us all in
an entertaining and illuminating experience (to speak with
self-parodic pomposity)
- execute your plans
To hand in, at the class meeting of the performance:
Each member of the performance team, individually, type up a 2-page
performance note explaining briefly
- what significant aspects of the comedy or satire
the section(s) you selected represent, and why they seemed significant
- how your performance has been designed to display and experiment
with these elements
- support your explanations by referring to data, in the text you're
working with and in your performance, and showing how they back you up
Thanks!
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This file last updated 9 January 2003 by
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