Please watch Go Home Sam, a "reader's theater" presentation done by students at Aberdeen Central some years ago. Then read The Pot of Gold, Pseudolus, or The Brothers Menaechmus and think about what you might include in a reader's theater style adaptation of the play. On Tuesday next week, the first 40 minutes of class will be devoted to preparing your presentations, and the last 35 minutes to the presentations themselves. You will be working with other students who read the same play you did.Share here some ideas on what you might want to see your group include. What lines/passages would be particularly good for showing what the play says about Roman values, family relationships, romantic relationships, day-to-day life, religion, etc.?
In Psueldolus there are many different interactions that take place through the play.
ReplyDeletePsuedolus the faithful servant cussed out Calidorus simply following his master Balliol's order. This would be a good scene to act out.
In the Pot of Gold I might want to include the scene where Megadorus first asks for the daughters hand in marriage because it shows interaction between two classes of Romans. I would include the ending scene as well because it resolves everything in the play and brings all the characters together. If I had time I would also try to bring the complex scene of the gold being stolen to the stage. The Pot of Gold
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In the play the Brothers Menaechmus, there are many scenes that display interactions between Romans in a casual setting. One such interaction that I would act out is when Sosicle's and the father of Menaechmus' wife have a conversation regarding Menaechmus' marriage. The father could really care less about how his daughter was treated, so long as he provides her with expensive clothes and servants. Through this conversation, we get an inside view of just what a marriage would be like in Roman society and what a wealthy husband would provide a wife. This is, of course, an exaggerated version of common life but there's still something to be learned from it
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