THEATRE 120 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Openair, Crown Heights Riot, Religious Festival
30 Oct 2014
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Fires in the mirror: overview, august 19, 1991, crown heights, brooklyn, death of gavin cato and yankel rosenbaum, prose, colloquial speech, series of interviews, settings of each character are different based on their background, anna deavere smith (1993, characters, anonymous lubavitcher woman turned on and couldn"t turn it off because of religion. Death of a salesman: overview, arthur miller, 1949, a tragedy of a family (the common man), first act written in one night, the rest in 6 weeks, prose, some colloquial speech, thematic elements. Willy"s unstable opinions about his life, unstable relationship to time, dreams become reminder of failures, the cruel immutability of the past: 36 years of flashbacks, characters, willy. Medea: overview, euripides, 431 bce, written in verse, based in corinth, debate between jason and medea, a woman in a man"s world, an asian in a greek world, and a sorceress in a rational world. Betrays othello by getting drunk: brabantio finds out he married his daughter.
