Sterling goes off to see her. Scene 2: Memphis and Wolf watch Hambone through the window. He is asking Lutz, a white man who once promised to give him a ham for painting a fence, for his ham. She cut them up to make them ugly and get men to leave her alone. She wants people to pay attention to her personality, not her body. She was examined at a psychiatric hospital once but the doctors could not find anything wrong with her. They have noticed Sterling looking at her. Memphis says he heard that Sterling was in prison for robbing a bank.
He got caught because he went out and spent the money ten minutes later. He was recently laid off from a construction job for being lazy. Holloway rejects this notion, saying that white people only got what they have by climbing on the backs of blacks who did all the work for hundreds of years. West comes in to the restaurant for coffee. West leaves. Memphis complains that Black Power is a misguided philosophy.
Hambone comes in and Risa pours him some coffee. She and Memphis argue about whether Hambone should be allowed to stay.
Memphis says he is sick of hearing Hambone and sends him back outside to bother Lutz. Scene 3: Sterling eats alone in the restaurant. He tells Risa he tried to talk to Hambone. Sterling admits to Risa that he was in prison for robbing a bank. He asks her about her scars and she does not say much, other than that it did not hurt to cut herself.
Holloway enters and Sterling asks him which fence Hambone painted for Lutz. When Holloway tells him, Sterling says Lutz should have given him two hams for a job that big. Sterling laments the fact that the world is as crazy as it is and that it is so difficult to get ahead.
Wolf tells a story about a man currently in jail who was arrested for stealing a dress to bury his deceased wife in. The group all pitch in a dollar or two to contribute to the collection towards helping bail the man out of jail. After Wolf leaves, Sterling sits one-on-one with Hambone. He fired his lawyer, which caused the proceedings to be postponed. Memphis is determined that the city will meet his price.
He has been through a lot of hardship and has nothing to lose. They are stolen from the funeral home across the street. Hambone enters and appears to have reverted back to saying just his old phrases. Memphis derides Wolf for running numbers out of his restaurant. West enters and reports that some one has busted out his window. He has hired a man named Mason to sit by the gaping hole with a shotgun to protect the funeral home. Memphis recounts the story of how he was run off of his farm in Jackson, MS and his intent to go back and reclaim it some day.
Sterling tries to convince West to give him a job as a hearse driver or washing the cars. West declines. Sterling has just been to try to see Aunt Ester again but was turned away because she was sleeping. West says that when he went to see Aunt Ester, he asked if his wife was in heaven. In his famous treatise, The Poetics, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle outlined six.
Plot What is the story line? What happened before the play started? What does each character want? What do they do to achieve their goals? What ideas are wrestled with in the play? What questions does the play pose? Does it present an opinion? Who are the people in the story? What are their relationships? Why do they do what they do? What visual elements support the play?
This could include: puppets, scenery, costumes, dance, movement, and more. Ask students to use their bodies and voices to create characters who are: very old, very young, very strong, very weak, very tired, very energetic, very cold, very warm.
Have their characters interact with others. Later, recap by asking how these obstacles affected their characters and the pursuit of their objectives.
Any piece of theatre comprises multiple art forms. As you explore this production with your students, examine the use of:. How are each of these art forms used in this production? Why are they used? How do they help to tell the story? Most plays utilize designers to create the visual world of the play through scenery, costumes, lighting, and more. These artists use. There are 5 basic varieties: vertical, horizontal, diagonal, curved, and zigzag.
It can be geometric e. FORM is three-dimensional. Positive space is enclosed by shapes and forms, while negative space exists around them. It can be smooth, rough, soft, etc. Dear Educator, Live theatre is a place for people to gather and experience the joys, triumphs, and sorrows life has to offer through a shared experience.
The Syracuse Stage Education Department is committed to providing the tools to make learning in and through the arts possible, to address varied learning styles and make connections to curriculum and life itself. It is our goal in the education department to maximize the theatre experience for our education partners with experiential learning and in-depth arts programming. Thank you for your interest and support!
When a high school teacher accused him of plagiarizing a twenty-page paper on Napoleon, the teenage Frederick dropped out of school and continued his education on his own at the public library, devouring the work of authors such as Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Arna Bontemps.
In , his father died, and young Frederick changed his name to August Wilson, in honor of his mother. When, in the same year, he purchased his first typewriter, the twenty-year-old declared himself a writer. After dabbling in poetry, he started writing plays, and in co-founded the activist theater company Black Horizons on the Hill with playwright Rob Penny. When he moved from Pittsburgh to Minneapolis in , Wilson started to clearly hear the voices of the Hill District for the first time.
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