Wednesday. Absent: Kaitlin, Drew
Friday. Absent: Ash, Carly
This week we finished up some activities with form, working briefly with verse forms:
iambic pentameter and trochaic tetrameter. Some discussion of the use of verse forms influencing the development of content.
Discussion of 2.5 Minute Ride by Lisa Kron included looking at the diversity of stories that make up the composition.
Assignment to diagram the stories in some manner. Thank you Alina and Chip for you work.
We watched Hal Holbrook's 1967 performance of Mark Twain Tonight, a play created by the actor studying a large body of work and then compsing the program conversationally in the persona of Mark Twain. More on Hal Holbrook here. (Side note: Richard Corson's elaborate makeup for the young Holbrook launched his fame as a stage makeup artist. His book Stage Makeup continues to be a standard text in the art.)
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