9B: Macbeth performance assignment

You will be delivering a performance of part of a scene from Macbeth and analyzing your own performance in a character/interpretation assignment. Here are the rules:

• You may work alone and perform a soliloquy, or in groups. If you work in a group, each group member needs to have a major part, with at least 5 lines. Minor parts can be cut or filled with members of other groups.


• The scene should be at least one minute long per group member but a minimum of 3 minutes long (unless doing a monologue).


• You may cut lines, speeches, and anything else that gets in the way of a clean & focused performance, but you need to use the original language.


• You need to bring some kind of costumes. Decide as a group what you want and what you can bring.


• The scene should have a clear interpretation: you will use the scene to tell us what you think the play is really about.


• You will not need to memorize your lines, although you need to know them well.


• Your goal should be to be interesting, meaningful, creative, and well prepared.

character/interpretation assignment

Character assignment

Answer the following questions:

1. Who is your character?


2. What is his or her relationship to the other characters in the scene, including emotional and social relationships? Be specific.


3. What seems to motivate this character generally?


4. What is the emotional state of the character? Why? Does it change during the scene? How so?


5. What posture, movements, or facial expression will tell us about the character? Explain.


6. What did you decide to focus on as the most important theme or meaning of the scene? How did you emphasize that?

assessment

Performances will be graded on the following criterion:

A: Content

· Does the performance show a high level of creativity and imagination? · Does the performance demonstrate an understanding of the playwright’s intentions, reflecting the themes and concepts of the play?

The character/interpretation assignment will be assessed with these criteria:

A: Content	C: Style & Language
· Do the responses show an in-depth understanding of the play’s themes and the playwright’s intentions? · Does it reflect the performance as it actually happened? · Do you support your ideas with evidence from your performance and/or the play?	· Are you ‘following the rules’ of spelling, grammar and punctuation? · Do you develop a formal, information style which is still interesting and demonstrating personal interaction and originality? · Do you use the technical language of literary analysis correctly?

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Tuesday 27 January: performances, character/interpretation assignments due.