Prompts

• What effect do you want to have on the audience?

• What do you want them to get from seeing your production? What aspect
of the play do you want to illuminate?
• What mood, tone or style do you want to create? What “look” do you
want?
• Do you want the audience to laugh, weep, think, sit in stunned silence or
run screaming out the door?
• If you’re the director, what well-known stage actors would you cast in the
leading roles, if you could? Why? Be sure to show us pictures of them. Your
concept—your approach to staging the play—is the heart of your
presentation and determines your choice of actors.
• And most important: how did the principles of analysis developed in your
analytic exercises influence your artistic decision
 Bertolt Brecht’s

The Good Woman of Setzuan

an Adaptation
 Significant Elements
• Capitalism
• Patriarchy
• Identity
• Water
• Divine Entities
• Goodness
 Epic Theatre/ Non-Aristotelian Drama
Hallmarks
• Socioeconomic basis
• Commentary on society; goal is to instigate social change
• Give context to base observations and opinions
• Less theatrical illusion, audience involvement;
• Signs, placards, projections

Estrangement Effect
• “Break fourth wall”
• Actors play multiple characters
• Use of a narrator

Brecht and Non-Aristotelian Theatre

• Montage technique of fragmentation
• Contrast and Contradiction
• Interruptions
 Shen Te Shui Ta
• Capitalism • Identity
• Shen tu is aware that it is unholy • Alter ego
to be a protitute and sell your • Used as a way to make people
body. However she also is aware listen to Shen Te without
that for her there is no other dismissing her
way to make ends meet.
• Being a women. No one takes
• Tobacco shop = better way of her seriously
making money.
• However, not true
 • Miss Saigon, Broadway Theatre
• Hadestown, Walter Kerr Theatre (Broadway)
• Les Misérables, Queen’s Theatre
• Yellow Rose, Feature Film
 Mr. Shu Fu
• In love with Shen Te
• Helps her out with whatever she needs
• Shen Te cannot accept his love because of capitalism
• Stays loyal to her regardless
Marc DeLaCruz as
Mr. Shu Fu
 Yang Sun
• Patriarchy
• Yang Sun insists that women are easily satisfied and that Shen Te lacks
common sense.
• Shen Te sings about how she will protect her son and prevent him
from becoming a man like his father
Riz Ahmed as Yang Sun
 Wong/Narrator
• Element: Water
• Wong has to work off of others suffering in order to survive. When
there is no water, he must travel far for it, but he does make a lot of
money that day. But when it rains, he makes none due to people
using the rain water instead of buying it
Peter Koo as Wong
Rebel Wilson as 1/3 of the 3 gods

• Pitch Perfect movies 1-3

• The Hustle
 Andrew Farrell as 1/3
of the 3 gods
• QC tones
• Mens acappella group HS
• HS musicals productions:
• The little mermaid
• Grease
• The addams family
Sarah Gross as 1/3 of the 3 gods

• Womans acappella group HS

• HS Musical production:
• Grease
• The little mermaid
• The Addams Family
• Cinderella
 The 3 gods
• Divine entitites
• Traveling in hopes of finding one good person
• Showing how poor the world has gotten (poor as in undivine)
• Checking up to determine if people are "living lives worthy of human
beings"
• they change it or leave as is
Tracy Ullman as
Mrs.Mi Tzu
Into the woods
Corpse Bride
The Tale of Despereaux
 Mrs. Mi Tzu
• Goodness
• Everyone is damaged by capitalism
• Motivated by money and greed onstead of listening to their heart
• There is potential to be good and do good, but it is overclouded by
the need to survive and have money
BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL
Shen Yun Dance Performance