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Timeline: Four Classes: Writing Script (2) Rehearsal (1) Performances (1)
Script: Ten-minute scene of your television series/Pride & Prejudice mash-up: including characters, themes, and plot points to create an amazing satire.
Rehearsing and Choreography: This is what I will remember as I grade your performances. Move around, my friends!! I will help you during rehearsals. All prose may be memorized to help the performance flow, but it is not required. Also, make sure all costumes and sets are ready to go for ease of execution. Rehearsal is key.
Performances: If you are sick or cannot make it, you need to make the necessary arrangements with your group and Mr. P. Treat this assignment with the same respect as an exam. If you leave your group high and dry on performance day with no phone call or explanation, expect an F on the assignment.
So, what do I hand in?
1. A final cut script to Turnitin.com
2. A timeline explaining what was accomplished, as well as a list of who did what and when.
3. An actual performance. No more than 10 minutes long.
NOTE: Use of class/homework time will be a huge factor in your grade!!! This will count as 1-2 major assessment grades.
Group Assignments:
Group 1: Grace, Christina, Michelle, Maddy, Maggie, Nicole, Haley
Group 2: Nick, Farshad, Drew, Paul, Parker, Ben W, David B
Group 3: Alex, Jack, Tristan, Matt, David C, Ben P
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bingley
Pritchett Family
Johnson Family
Bennet Family
The Bachelor
The Bachelor
American Horror Story - Asylum
English Horror Story - Rosings
Britain's Got Talent
No Golden Buzzer, Simon?
Survivor - Elimination Immunity Challenges
Pride - Dating Immunity Challenges
RUBRIC
D or F performances
- Anything less than the C performances below
- Complete script for Mr. Pellerin & each group member (no trips to copy machine)
- Script contains:
- Television series mash-up with Pride & Prejudice
- Clear theme
- Interesting story development
- Elements of the novel text integrated
- Performance of scripts, in hand, is moderately smooth. Periodic stops for technical difficulties
- Costumes
- Performance with all members occurs on the assigned date
B performances have all the above and…
- Script contains: Meaningfully theme – Nuanced and philosophical
- Complex plot development - Intelligent mash-up choice
- Songs are meaningful and well placed (though perhaps a bit long, and/or one “note” meanings)
- Well chosen moments from the text – a strong cross section of the play
- Performance is smooth. Though not memorized, the performers know the material inside and out. Choices about technology, blocking, costumes, and the like are thought out beforehand.
- Script contains: Themes and concepts are thought provoking. Shows us multiple sides to the issues presented
- Clear theme – Nuanced and philosophical – Goes beyond stereotypes to get at the heart of the matter
- Complex plot development and seamlessly thread together as if this were an original play and not a Frankenstein monster of moments
- A perfect satire well paced and preformed with feeling
- Amazing, complementary television show mash-up - themes of both come alive!
- Script is nuanced. Every line is thoughtfully spliced and there is a definite beginning, middle and end to the performance.
- Performance is smooth and choreography is fun and meaningful. All props and cues are hit. One or two members attempted to memorize parts. Members tried to use note cards.
- Costumes and staging are thoughtfully planned ahead of time and a world is created
- We are all speechless
Pride and Prejudice:
ReplyDeleteThe Endgame
Characters:
Lizzy: Captain America (Ben)
Jane: Black Widow (Matt)
Bingley: Rocket (Alex rogoff)
Darcy: Thor (Tristan)
Wickham: Thanos (Jack)
Mr. Collins: Hulk (DCalli)
Mr. Bennet: War machine (Tristan)
Lydia: nebula (Ben)
narrator: alex
Capt. Marvel - some rando from US (Matt)
Scene: Thanos has snapped his fingers and removed half of the population of the universe, the remaining Avengers have to work together to get their fellow avengers back.
Script:
Narrator: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of the infinity stones, must be in want of complete power. Up to this point, Sir Thanos Wickham has removed half of England’s population with the snap of his fingers. In order to restore balance, the surviving members of the Longbourne and Netherfield Estates need to come together and kill Sir Thanos Wickham.
Capt. Marvel: Y’all take care of him. And I'll bring him a “cup of tea” when I come back, how’s that?
[ Capt. Marvel walks away.]
Jane: Where are you going?
Capt. Marvel: To avenge your Englishmen by killing this Thanos Wickham you talk about.
[Lizzy and Jane share a look before walking after her.]
Jane: Hey, you know, we usually work as a team here, and between you and I, morale's a little fragile.
Lizzy: We know that across the ocean is more your territory, but this is our fight too.
Mr. Bennett: Do you even know where he is?
Capt. Marvel: I know people who might.
Lydia: [Standing behind Capt. Marvel] Don't bother. I can tell you where Sir Thanos Wickham is. He spent a long time trying to perfect me. And when came home from deployment, he talked about his great plan. Even when he went mental, I wanted to please him. I'd ask "where would we go once his plan was complete?". His answer was always the same: "To London"
Mr. Bennett: That's cute, Mr. Wickham has a retirement plan.
Capt. Marvel: So where is this London?
Bingley: When Mr. Wickham snapped his fingers, England became ground zero for a power surge of ridiculously cosmic proportions. No one has ever seen anything like it... Until two days ago. [A hologram of a planet pops up, with a shockwave visibly traversing the surface.] On this planet.
Lydia: Mr. Wickham is there.
Jane: He used the stones again.
Mr. Collins: Hey, hey, hey. We would be going in short-handed, you know.
Mr. Bennet: Look, he's still got the stones, so...
Lydia: So let's get him... Use the stones to bring everyone back.
Mr. Bennet: Just like that?
Lizzy: Yeah, just like that.
[Lizzy + Capt. Marvel share a knowing look.]
Jane: Even if there's a small chance that we can undo this... I mean we owe it to everyone who's not in this room to try.
Mr. Collins: If we do this, how do we know it's gonna end any differently than it did before?
Capt. Marvel: Because before, you didn't have me.
Mr. Bennet: My dear, everyone here is about that superhero life. But if you could pardon me asking, where have you been?
Capt. Marvel: There are a lot of other countries on this planet besides England. And unfortunately, they don't have you guys.
[Darcy, who has been eating a snack behind all this time, stands up and walks over to Capt. Marvel. She looks behind at him. He holds his hand up, and grabs the musket from the weapon stand, missing Mary by inches. But she doesn't even flinch, instead smiling at the Lord of Pemberley.]
Darcy: I like this one. [smiles]
Lizzy: Let's go get this son of a b----.
Mr. Bennett: I dare say Miss Bennett, do watch your language! That was quite uncalled for.
[Title Screen: Avengers: Endgame]
[Cut to a shot of everyone except for Tony aboard the Benatar.]
Bingley: Okay, who here hasn't been to space?
[Jane, Lizzy, and Mr. Bennet raise their hands.]
Mr. Bennet: Why do you ask?
Bingley: You better not hurl on my ship.
Lydia: Approaching jump to light speed in 3... 2... 1!
Delete[The ship jumps forward into a wormhole, and we see Lizzy holding onto her seat for dear life. A close up of his eyes show them widening slightly at the exhilaration of this new experience. The ship slows down, and the ship hovers in orbit of the planet seen in the hologram previously. Mary hovers in front of the Benatar.]
Capt. Marvel: I'll head down for recon.
[A shot of the passengers inside the Benatar preparing for the impending confrontation.]
Jane: This is gonna work, Lizzy.
Lizzy: I know it will.
[We see Lizzy holding a compass with an image of Mrs. Bennet.]
Lizzy: Cause I don't know what I'm going to do if it doesn't.
[Capt. Marvel approaches the Benatar.]
Capt. Marvel: No satellites, no ships, no armies, no ground defenses of any kind. It's just him.
Lydia: Know my dear, that is all he needs.
[Cut to a shot of a scenic lush tropical fauna. It surrounds a shed on a farm. A scarecrow made of Wickham's armor is seen before we cut to a shot focusing on the burnt Infinity Gauntlet on Wickham's arm. He's walking among his crops, harvesting fruit, and putting them in a sack. He walks over to the shed, with a dragging quality to his legs, like it pains him to walk, presumably his living quarters, and tries to sit down, and we see his full face. His whole left side is burnt black with blisters; He looks ridiculously pathetic compared to when we saw him last.]
[Suddenly, Capt. Marvel flies through the roof, knocking Thanos Wickham down, and grabbing his neck. Mr. Collins in the Collins Buster armor bursts from the ground, and grabs Wickham’s Infinity Gauntlet arm. Darcy flies in and slices off the Infinity Gauntlet. Mr. Bennett flies down with Bingley and aims guns on Wickham's head.]
[Lizzy walks in her Winter Soldier Outfit, with Jane right behind her, staring murderously at Wickham. Bingley goes over to the sliced off Infinity Gauntlet, and kicks it over, as everyone realizes that there are no stones in it.]
Bingley: Oh dear lord.
Lizzy: Where are they?
Capt. Marvel: Answer the question!
Wickham: England required correction. After that, the stones served no purpose, beyond temptation.
Mr. Collins: You murdered millions! [Mr. Collins pushes him to the ground wearing Collins Buster armor]
Wickham: You should be grateful. [Punched by Collins Buster]
Jane: Where are the Stones?
Wickham: Oh the stones? Indeed they are gone, reduced to dust... to atoms.
Mr. Collins: You used them two days ago!
Wickham: I used the stones to destroy the stones. It nearly killed me. But the work is done. And it will forever be so. [sits himself a little straighter.] For I am... inevitable.
Lydia: My love is many things. A liar is not one of them.
Wickham: My dear Lydia. Oh how I miss you so much. [Lydia looks down, a little uncomfortable.] Perhaps I treated you too harshly.
[We see Darcy’s face filled with rage as he raises to summon Stormbreaker, and before anyone can stop him, SLICES Wickham's head off. Wickham's limp body falls to the floor. Mary wipes off some of the blood spatter.]
Bingley: What... What have you done Mr. Darcy!?
[Darcy looks broken, realizing what he has done.]
Darcy: I went for the head. Just like Mr. Wickham told me.
[Scene fades to black. To be continued…]