Creating & Evaluating Text

Theater Appreciation
University of Wisconsin - Parkside
Jennifer Sassaman, Professor

1. Creating and Evaluating Text

2. Playwright Inspiration Real Life Experiences ( The Glass Menagerie ) Collaboration ( K aufman & Hart) Actual Events ( The Laramie Project ) Serendipity ( If You’re the Guy ) Process Write Re-write Workshops/Readings Produce David Hare on Playwriting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8N2WwZFNDo

3. Critic

4. Dramaturg

5. Producer

6. Agent

7. Marketing Team Trailer: https :// www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pDCGlWsQhc

8. Audience

9. Assignment Play Treatment 400 Words Summary of the major points of a story you think you would like to write. This can be from your life, a version of a non-theatrical story you know, something you heard on the news, an interesting idea you have, etc Must be typed & printed out Due Wednesday

10. The Most Famous Playwright Hip Hop Shakespeare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSbtkLA3GrY