Budget Items:
(1) Kokesh
(2) C. Paff
(3) Gerald
(4) A. Schneiderman
(5) L. Rowland
Instructor Orientation:
make demo videos of stylized stories
Representative Days:
DAY 1 (MONDAY)
Learning Theater
Introduction
- meeting the people
- who are we working with? (Lisa Rowland, Anna Schneiderman, Gerald Gray, Courtney Roby, Anne Newman, Carrie Paff)
- who is returning? (Antonia, Elibet)
- new way to do philosophy and theater (new, but also old)
- critical thinking (on big issues like justice, self-restraint and courage, truth and knowledge)
- communicating confidently and persuasively
- collaborative, creative productions that make our learning relevant
Room/space (desks, chairs, white boards, walls)
Team Building
- Quick warm up
- Handshake greeting
- Telling the other's story: object exchange
- Beanbag names
- Hey Neighbor!
Survey-First Thoughts
Tour: meet Adelaide, Laurie; 4th floor; Learning Theater
Final Performance:
- Scenes from Antigone/Birds
- Scenes of Reflection
Administrative Stuff:
Lunch
Warm-up
Rooms 120 Stoics
Wiki-Time
- Introduction
- Ease of page creation
- Visibility
- Adding content
- Posting comments
- Nothing is ever lost!
Rooms 127 Cynics
Wiki-assignment (1hour information gathering for Birds)
- circumstances: Athens, Greek theater, utopia
- ideas: justice, self-control, courage, truth, myth, comedy, philosophy
Break (10 minutes)
Regroup
Socrates Workshop I: "It is unjust to..." (Find new, workable topic for first Socrates workshop)
(Philosophical Themes: Justice, Self-restraint and Courage, Truth and Knowledge)
Homework:
Wiki story of justice (200 words)
- personal
- details
- action or inaction
- finding a narrative arc
Review plays
Generate 2 character types on notecards
Informed Consent (!)
DAY 2 (TUESDAY)
Introduction
Physical and vocal warm-up
Team Building exercises: Urban Ball; bodyguards.
Continue ??? Socrates Workshop
Lunch
Storytelling Exercise
(http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/PhilosophicalStages/538)
- stylized stories of justice (instructors have prepared demo videos of stylized stories)
Stoics-Room 120 Update Wiki pages
Antigone--gathering and posting research on the Wiki
- characters: Antigone, Creon, Haemon, Ismene, Tiresias
- circumstances: Athens, Thebes, Greek theater, Oedipus, oracles
- ideas: loyalty, reverence, self-control, justice, myth, tragedy, philosophy
Antigone--read-through of scenes
Cynics-Room 127 Read-through of Birds
Homework
-Choose a character in a particular scene. Find three personalities (from film, for instance) for that character. How would you effectively combine those three? Post your ideas to your page.
WEDNESDAY OFF
DAY 3 (Thursday)
Learning Theater
Introduction
Physical and Vocal Warm up
"Do you follow me?" "I think so, but tell me more..."
Other improv / quick-thinking games
Cynics/Stoics
Finish Read-Throughs
Brief Discussion - Character Presentation from Homework
Lunch
Scoring Demo and Discussion
The Five Questions
#1 Who am I?
#2 Where am I? And when am I there?
#3 What do I want? (Objective: "I want to get ... from someone else.")
#4 What do I do to get what I want? (Action: "In order to get ... from someone I must make them feel ...")
#5 What do I do after I do or do not get what I want?
Scoring
Cynics begin to identify scenes
Regroup
Lecture: Jason Aftosmis (and Al?) / "Toward the Greek Actor"???
Stoic Homework
Focus on the first 20 lines of Antigone. Choose an objective for each character. Choose actions (what does each want to make the other feel?) for each sentence (keeping in mind that actions don't necessarily have to change from one sentence to another, but often do). For a little more detail, go to the Scoring Demo page (where you'll also find a version of the text).
Cynic Homework
Assign identified scenes: each Cynic scores a scene.
DAY 4 (FRIDAY)
Learning Theater
Introduction
Warm up exercises
Making someone feel an emotion (relational position, status, gestures, tone)
Character studies (Reading poems as characters from notecards)
Break up into groups
Scoring continued
assigning parts?
rehearsal?
Lunch
Learning Theater
- Introduce "Story Spine"--elements Lisa Rowland introduced: for instance, Setting Background, The Tilt, The Problem, Because of that..., Resolution to new equilibrium, Moral
Defining Virtues
Socrates Workshop II -- Self-control
- Guiding Principles for Definition:
- Establishing the range of the virtuous (differences of kind and degree)
- Defining with positive terms
- Self-sufficient (albeit with other virtue-variables)
- Working earnestly with compelling objections
- Watch for definitions that are too strong; perhaps, for example, "One should always be in control of oneself."
- Independence of the Question: Wanting more than to expose an opponent's ignorance
Homework
Find five articles (from newspapers, Google news, etc.) that involve 1) loyalty, and 2) self-control (making 10 in all). Compose a definition of each virtue that fits with the articles you have found.
Parts assigned? start learning lines.
