English Journal Entry #1

02 Jun 2004

English Journal Entry #1
Wednesday, June 02, 2004

Today was the first time all of our group confirmed that, in fact, we WERE a group (I was absent when the assessment was handed out), and we discussed a few things.

Having determined who was in the group, we set out to agree on a plot of sorts.  The first suggestion was that we satirise, and generally poke a stick in the direction of, the politics (and associated envy) associated with positions of student leadership at SACS.  Upon reflection, this potentially would have been offensive… and a better idea was reached.  The original wasn’t anywhere near twisted enough for our groups liking, so we embarked on something a little more warped.

Essentially, the plot is three characters in a play are jealous over the parts of each other.  The play being our group presentation, the jealousy being related to our parts within the play and the individual marking of these roles.  We’re playing ourselves in a play about ourselves — recursively, the play is set in the development of the play itself.  So, scripting will be based on real dialog occurring in our preparation.

We’ll be making use of soliloquies, having (forcibly brief, given the four-minute time constraint) moments of reflection in which various characters reveal their thoughts (whilst the other two are “frozen” in time).