Introductions and Organization

08/17/23 • 33 min

Co-hosts: Derek Kolluri and Jeremy Lee Cudd
Episode 0 introduces some concepts and organization for how we will approach and shape our future play discussions.
OUR ORGANIZATIONAL BUCKETS / CONTAINERS / SECTIONS:

Origin, Provenance
Ingredients, Casting, Setting, Notes, Quotes, Hints, Biography, and other Context Clues
Structural Overview
Summary - Dramatic Actions, Digesting the Story through close readings and distillation
Synthesis Discussion - Locating the Spine and Building out from it - Story Beats, Dramatic Action/Question, Themes, POV of the Storyteller, Personal POV on the Text, Dialogue with the Zeitgeist
Moment-to-Moment Breakdown of an Example Scene - zooming to the Actor Beat level, building to the Story Beat, while referencing the relationship to the overall structural thrust

Shoutout to Jim Wise for "Telegrams to the Audience."
Our first cluster of episodes will be dedicated to GLORIA by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

Origin, Provenance
Ingredients, Casting, Setting, Notes, Quotes, Hints, Biography, and other Context Clues
Structural Overview
Summary - Dramatic Actions, Digesting the Story through close readings and distillation
Synthesis Discussion - Locating the Spine and Building out from it - Story Beats, Dramatic Action/Question, Themes, POV of the Storyteller, Personal POV on the Text, Dialogue with the Zeitgeist
Moment-to-Moment Breakdown of an Example Scene - zooming to the Actor Beat level, building to the Story Beat, while referencing the relationship to the overall structural thrust

Shoutout to Jim Wise for "Telegrams to the Audience."
Our first cluster of episodes will be dedicated to GLORIA by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.