MY LIFE AS A SHOWTheatre Production

Mrs. Abbott

PLOT OUTLINEYou will create a chronology (timeline) of major life events (past and future…be creative with your future). This can be a simple list or an illustrated number line. Put the year on the left and describe the major event to its right. Include details! Think about the future! Where do you want to be in 5,10,20, 50, etc years from now?

Example: (YOU NEED MORE THAN THIS): This is just an example of how to write one event.

I danced all through elementary, middle and high school, ballet, my Freshman year of high school I was at a dress rehearsal for a ballet, I slipped on some confetti back stage, fell into the splits at a wrong angle, and tore my hamstring. So instead of being in the ballet, I watched it wearing a baby doll dress and combat boots.

If it hasn’t happened yet…make it up!!! You need 10 specific life events, try for 5 in the past and 5 in the future.

THEATRE POSTERYou will complete a color rendering of a theatrical poster on paper or poster board 8 x 10 in size. You must include the title of your show, the author, appropriate font, illustration, be creative. Please title your show something more creative than “My Life”.

Make sure to add: Color Pictures Important People

EXAMPLE:

COSTUME DESIGNDesign two costumes for yourself for two major events in your life

(These events must appear in your Plot Line). Designs should be in color with fabric suggestions or swatches.

EXAMPLE of a Costume: 1994, Ballet performance I wasn’t in due to injury.

Your costumes can be hand drawn or pictures from the internet.

SOUNDTRACKCreate a soundtrack for your life, and create a digital playlist. You must include at least one song for birth early childhood, teenage years, young adulthood, middle age, old age, and death. The songs should represent your life or hoped future life at each of those stages. 10 songs total.

EXAMPLE:

1. Bananarama: Cruel Summer 2. Tiffany: I Think We’re Alone Now 3. The Verve Pipe: The Freshman 4. Save Ferris: Come on Eileen 5. In Sync: Bye Bye Bye 6. Alanis Morissette: Head Over Feet 7. Jason Robert Brown: The Next Ten Minutes 8. Al Green: Let’s Stay Together 9. Lin Manuel Miranda (Hamilton): One Last Time 10.Johnny Cash: Hurt

MONOLOGUEWrite an original monologue from an event in your Plot line.

Write a one page monologue that details your feelings about one of your life events, past, present or future.

Remember, a monologue is a long speech by one person said to the other actors on stage or to the audience.

SCENEWrite a 4 page scene (short play) of a major event of your life (past, present, future, you pick!)

CHARACTER ONE: What a person says. (What a person does)

(Stage Directions)

CHARACTER TWO: Dialogue. (Stage Directions)Stage directions are in parenthesis and italicized either within the line or centered.

Colon after the characters name.

Use capital letters at the beginning of sentences and punctuation at the end!

One space in between each characters line.

Playwriting Format