Ive got Gut Girls, Problem Child, and Frost/Nixon all done for right now- I just have to get around to reading Beaux. Im done my work for the Research on Problem Child and Ive put together some stuff for the playgoers companion for Frost/Nixon- unfortunatly- no one else has. Im sure we'll get it done though. Talking about Gut Girls in class was a nice experience- after reading the play, it was good to know some of the history surrounding it.
I forgot about the deadline for the halfway synthesis, Im sure that is going to come back and kick me in the ass :L
The topic of- how much should you know about the play before seeing the play- has been coming up quite a bit lately, with the Watergate scandal in Frost/Nixon, and the history of the gut girls, in... Gut Girls. There are a lot of cases where people go into a play, not knowing the historical background of the setting, let alone what the play is even about. I dont really think that we can come to a definitive answer, as to which is better, knowing a lot or knowing very little. But it is hard to argue that the experiences of people who enter a play with those extremes, or something in between, will all be different in one way or another.
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