Desire, Desire, Desire; Parody & Portfolio Prep

Please turn in your play analysis (either by hand in my in-box or through Google classroom) for A Streetcar Named Desire. 

Today, let's read the parody Desire, Desire, Desire by Christopher Durang.

After reading, select a character from one of Tennessee Williams plays or a scene or situation and write a parody of the play in a scene that is between 3-10 pages in length. Use proper playwriting format as you have learned. This assignment will count as extra credit for MP2.

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY:

• Take a character from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Glass Menagerie, or A Streetcar Named Desire and write a monologue or scene that involves that character that did not appear in the play. Perhaps you could write a scene between Brick and Skipper, or between Amanda and Tom's estranged father, or a birthday party when Blanche and Stella were young teenage girls still living at the plantation. 
• Write a parody of Tennessee Williams' work. Poke fun at his characters or their revealing of secrets. Parodies work when you exaggerate characters or plots or scenes from the original source. See Blue Harvest (Family Guy) as an example.
• Place a character in a Williams play in a contemporary setting and write that scene. 

Extra credit will be due by 1/25 (end of Midterm Week). Submit your extra credit in our Google Classroom site.

Then, please move next door to the lab to work on your 1st semester portfolio & reflection. You will continue this assignment with Ms. Gamzon tomorrow and through Friday when the portfolio is due.

HOMEWORK: Write a parody; prepare your portfolio. Journals will be collected Thursday.