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Interrogating the text

• Given circumstances. (What do I know about my character from reading the play?)
• What do people say about my character?
• What do I say about myself?
• What is my journey through the play
• Mark the beat changes and thought changes in your script
• Action your script so you know what you are doing to the other person on every line

Interrogating your Character and Objectives

The 9 questions

1. Who am I? (Diary entry)
2. What time is it? (For each scene i'm in, Year?, season, time of day or night?)
3. Where am i? (For each scene)
4. What surrounds me? (People and things)
5. What's my relationship. (People and things)
6. What's just happened before the scene starts? (what happens after the scene ends?)
7. Objective (What do I want?)
8. Obstacle (What's in my way?)
9. Action (Tactics to get what I want?)

• What is my animal and why?
• Research my character-animal
• What animalistic traits can I bring to the character?
• What is the soundtrack to your character's life?
• Put together a personal playlist for your character's journey throughout the play

Interrogating your Relationships

• who is your family?
• Who are your friends?
• Who are your acquaintances? 
• Who are your enemies?
• Who do you openly like?
• Who do you openly dislike?
• Who do you secretly like?
• Who do you secretly dislike?

Interrogating the world of the play

• Answer your Homework Questions on the world of the play
• What production values do you want the piece to have, think about:

1. Costume
2. Props
3. Set
4. Sound (music)
5. Lighting

• Find music for each specific moment in the play to share with the class next week

Homework Questions

Draw a Mind Map of the play’s main themes and issues

Fairies

Who are the fairies?
What does it mean to be immortal?
What kind of fairies would Shakespeare have known in his day and age?

The Court

What would the world of Theseus' Court be like today?
What does it look like, feel like, what's the atmosphere?

The Mechanicals

How is their world different to the world of the court?

 How do their clothes reflect their work?
Where do they meet in Act 1, what's the atmosphere of this place?

 The Lovers

 Why is the play set in a forest?

 What's the experience of beoing in a forest at night?

 Does the forest have a deeper meaning - what could it be symbolic of?

 Does our forest have to be made of trees?