Production Analysis Paper—15 points For Our Town, refer to the Cast List (Links

Production Analysis Paper—15 points
For Our Town, refer to the Cast List (Links to an external site.). To view the filmed stage production, scroll down and use your Library sign-in to access the video.
Properly reference artists’ names in your paper. Failure to credit properly artists will result in a loss of points. Instructions—Read Carefully! Write an analysis that responds to the prompts below with your original analysis and insight about the play and its production. I want to know what you thought about what you experienced and saw on the stage.
Your analysis must express a point of view about the production and must be at least 1.5 to 3 pages long. Assume your reader attended the production. Provide context for your discussion and analysis without retelling the entire plot of the play if a brief synopsis of the story might help you to set up your arguments.
I. Prompts A Design Element. Examine the use of ONE design element in the (A design element includes scenery, costumes, props, lighting, sound, or media design). Properly credit the artist whose work you are critiquing. How did these specific design choices create meaning and contribute to the world of the play and the storytelling? Use specific moments from the production to support your aesthetic interpretation and analysis. How does this reinforced the setting of the play or the status, class, gender, or relationship of a character;
Choice of a Staging Moment, a Performance, or another Point of Interest. You are free to choose another aspect of the production to analyze; for example, a specific director’s choice, an actor’s performance, a piece of choreography, or something else that captured your interest. How did this particular specific create meaning? What does this specific piece of the production suggest about the production as a whole?
Issues of Diversity: Examine the politics of the play by choosing an issue of diversity (such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, religion, disability) and evaluating its depiction. How does the play’s depiction reinforce or challenge conventional (traditional) understandings of the issue under examination? What does this particular issue under examination suggest about the play as a whole?
Do not let the above prompts limit your response; rather, use them to inspire, expand, and deepen your thinking about the play and its production. II. Format Follow MLA style guidelines: MLA TemplatePreview the document. You paper must contain your name, the course number, your recitation instructor’s name, and the date, formatted per the example provided. MLA guidelines can be found at (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ (Links to an external site.)). Give your paper a creative title.
Italicize play titles. They do not belong in “quotation marks.”
When talking about a production that you have seen, use the past tense.
You should name each artist whose work you are discussing.
This is a scholarly paper. Use a formal voice. Avoid slang. Writing should be polished— your grade for presentation includes grammar, syntax, and spelling.
Your writing should be free of typos, misspellings, and other mistakes.
If you use any sources, be sure to include a citation. This applies to the dramaturg’s program note. Here is the general format for citing a show’s program:
Program Notes. Name of Play by Playwright. Producing Company. Location. Date you saw the show.
SUBMISSION DIRECTIONS:
Upload your production analysis to the correct Carmen Production Analysis assignment or submit a hard copy in class. I reserve the right to refuse late or emailed papers.
Failure to turn in your paper in a readable format will result in a loss of points.
NOTE: This is an individual, not a collaborative assignment. The essay you turn in should be your own work. In this course, I use Turnitin originality check on all written work.
Avoid plagiarism!
III. Other Tips
Be honest! You do not have to express any particular opinion just to try to please your instructor. But remember, you must support your opinions using specific examples and thoughtful analysis about the production. It is not enough just to have an opinion, positive or negative. You must tell your reader why. Talk about what really interested or excited you about the production!
Grading Rubric:
4 pts A Design Element
4 pts Point of Interest
4 pts Issues of Diversity
3 pts Presentation (organization, grammar, etc.)
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Thornton Wilder’s Our Town:
Cast List (Links to an external site.)
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Troubleshooting:
If you have problems accessing the embedded video, try clicking on the following link:
Click on the following to:
http://proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/login?url=http://digital.films.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?aid=23065&xtid=43622 Or try searching the OSU Library for “Title” — Our Town, Other E-formats (it will be the [2011], c 2003 version:
OurTown Library.JPG

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