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    Harrington

    21M.604 Fall 2005


    Week 5, Assignment

    1. Using 2-4 characters create a 10 minute play (10 pages) that centers on a
    disrupted ritual.

    2. Read “A Streetcar Named Desire,” by Tennessee Williams. What’s the disrupted


    ritual in this play? How many can you name?

    What is ritual?
    Religious: funeral, wedding, daily mass, confession.

    Social: 10 year old running poker game


    3 friends meet at a bar one time a week
    Running partners

    Family: Christmas evening


    Thanksgiving morning
    Birthday party
    Graduation

    Personal:
    How you dress/eat.
    Turning TV on every time character is alone.
    How you start your day.

    Work:
    What are the rituals in a lab with monkeys/rats/flies?
    What would a disruption cause?
    Doling out meds in a hospital.
    Opening the mail
    Opening/closing the office/store
    Car pool
    Watching the Superbowl
    Riding the subway
    Riding the commuter train
    Boarding the Monday morning Delta shuttle.

    As you prepare to write your play, ask yourself the following questions:
    1. What is the ritual? Family? Social? Personal? Work-related?
    2. What is the scenario of the ritual? What usually happens? Think it through step by
    step. How/when does it begin? End?
    3. How does each character respond to the ritual?
    4. What disrupts the ritual?
    5. When and how is the ritual disrupted? What are the SPECIFIC circumstances?
    6. How does the disruption affect the ritual? Characters? Relationships?
    Immediately? As the scene progresses?
    7. What CONFLICT does the disruption create?
    8. Are any or all of the conflicts resolved?

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