• MIDTERM READING PERIOD: No class

Monday, November 8:

• MIDTERM READING PERIOD: No class

Wednesday, November 10:

• Our day with actors from ACTER ("A Center for Theatre, Education, and Research"). We'll meet in the Coffeehouse in the basement of the Union.
  
• A little about ACTER (from their web page): "When presenting their five-actor play, the actors perform in a small area (roughly twenty feet square), delineated by ten chairs which become tables, cauldrons, thrones, or podiums as needed. The actors present a full script, with few or no cuts, and play all twenty-thirty roles with minimal props, costumes, and lighting effects. The fun for us, the audience, comes in seeing how they mark these rapid role shifts by gesture, stance, intonation, or the simple use of a skirt or scarf. Without large sets and elaborate costumes, an ACTER production relies on the spoken words to carry the play; we are quickly drawn into the action and must listen intently, using all our senses and our imagination, to follow the action. The experience is exciting: you feel that you are literally creating the play along with the actors."
• See the play at 8pm tonight or tomorrow (or Saturday at 3) in Stansbury.

Friday, November 12:

• For today, read the Introduction by Herschel Baker on pp lxiii-lxxi.
• See this handout for a description of what's happening today.

Saturday, November 13:

• Session with actors.
  
• Meet at 10:30 am in Stansbury Theatre

Monday, November 15:

• For today, read the play again.
• Have your perceptions of the play changed since seeing it performed? Since talking with the actors? If so, how?

Tuesday, November 16:

• Twelfth Night paper due in my office by 4:00 p.m. This is a change from the original schedule.

• Transition from Shakespeare to Beethoven