Researching and Analysing Your Play
Researching your play is really important both in preparation for your Directors Notebook and for your exploration of Realism and Konstantin Stanislavski's System.
In your journal please go through the following tasks and questions:
Context of the play
- Find a quiet space and read the play from start to finish.
- Jot down your first impression of what the play is about, and what themes/messages you think the playwright wanted to communicate to the audience through the play.
Research the following information:
- The Writer and his/her life.
- The Society of the time the play was written.
- A historical timeline outlining the main events of the period during the time when the play was written.
- The play's genre.
This initial research must be completed in your journals by Friday 5th December.