Analyze the production photo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

 Question 11 (15 points)

 

Analyze the production photo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream in your textbook on the top of page 139 with regards to staging. How is focus achieved? How does spatial composition communicate the relationship of the three men standing? Support your response with specific examples.

Question 12 (15 points)

 

How can lighting affect the mood of a production? Support your response with specific examples.

Question 13 (15 points)

 

Discuss the importance of the protagonist/antagonist relationship in drama. Support your response with specific examples from one of the plays we have read thus far.

Question 14 (15 points)

 

Discuss how costume design communicates character in the production photo on page 180 in your textbook (His Girl Friday by John Guare at the Guthrie Theatre). Support your response with specific examples.

Question 15 (15 points)

 

As an actor, what kind of challenges might the long stories from Joe Turner’s Come and Gone present? What do we learn about the characters from these long stories? How do they relate to the events of the play and the play’s meaning? Support your response with specific examples from the play.