class 4-1-13

class 4-1-13

Agenda Quiz Plot/Word Questions Desire and Patriarchy in Synetic Tempest and play text Discussion of Act 5 Thinking about Performance Quiz 9 When Prospero has his brother, Alonso and Alonso’s brother in his control, what does he do to them?…

Prospero…the all controlling!

When first reading this play you think that Prospero is all out for revenge. He controls all the characters around him and seems very selfish. The last act though, I almost had a second thought about his motives. It almost…

Who’s the True Villain?

In the Tempest, I found very difficult to find a absolute antagonist in both the written and performed versions. In Titus and Henry V, the villains or antagonist were clear, Tamora in Titus and in one way or another The…

Mute Performance

A few other people have posted about comparing or contrasting the play’s text against the live performance, and many people I’ve heard talking about the two have been saying things such as “Caliban was too vengeful” or “the plot was…

class 3-27-13

class 3-27-13

  Quiz 8 What was unique about the floor of the stage for the Synetic Tempest? What musical instrument did Ariel play? In addition to music, what kind of material came out of that instrument? Unlike Shakespeare’s play, this Tempest…

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class 3-25-13

Agenda Go over essay 2 assignment Quiz 8 Plot/langauge questions/Practice Reading Tempest Synetic Tempest Discussion   Quiz 8 What was unique about the floor of the stage for the Synetic Tempest? What musical instrument did Ariel play? In addition to…

Tempest written vs performed

While at the Synetic Theater performance of The Tempest, there were many things I found different between what I remember reading and what we saw. One thing I adore about live theater is the fact that the director has so much creative…

Why is The Tempest hard to Understand?

The Tempest is one of Shakespeare’s later works in his career. Therefore, since this work was probably created  at the peak of Shakespeare’s career or afterwards, our friend Shakespeare had to switch up his style. This explains why The Tempest…

Ticket List

Last Name First Name # tickets Bergquist Megan 1 Fryer Didi 1 Hanania Heidi 1 Hayden Richard 1 Khan Madiha 1 Khan Kanwal 2 Letham Glenn 1 Malone Amanda 1 Matz Robert 4 McDonald Tyler 1 Nalle Spencer 3 Ngo…