middlebrooks capstone presentation
TRANSCRIPT
Blinding Silence
Manna-Symone Middlebrooks
An Original Play Written, Directed and Produced by:
Goal✴ Experience multiple theater professions
✴ Introduce students and the community to the power of the theater
Background ✴ An intimate relationship with the theater
✴ Recycling and Shopping for ideas: NHD Project
Inquiry ✴ Why does American media not reflect
its society?
✴ How do you make facts interesting?
✴ What is my role in the theater community?
Research ✴ American History 1950-1970
✴ Theater games that work
✴ Inspirational Playwrights
Collaboration✴ Philadelphia Young Playwrights
✴ Building a creative team, not a cast
Presentation
✴ Taking stage at the InterAct
✴ Video DocumentationQuickTime™ and a
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Reflection✴ Explore different techniques
✴ Balance workshop and rehearsal
Looking Forward✴ Build a new team and finish the piece
✴ Create my type of theater
Acknowledgements✴ David
O’Connor
✴ Josh Block
✴ Alexa Dunn
✴ Essie Middlebrooks
✴ Cast and Crew
✴ Philadelphia Young Playwrights