Option C: Play Study (continued)

Lesson Two: Studying the Script

• continue to develop an understanding of how dramatic artists acquire and develop ideas

Begin studying the play by asking the students to brainstorm a list of ideas they believe the playwright was intending to explore through this play.

The Playwright

Lynn Kirk lives in Regina. She writes short fiction and drama for all media. Her radio play Woman of Merit won a CBC Literary Competition award for comedy-drama and was produced on CBC's "Morningside".

Teachers may wish to contact the Saskatchewan Writer's Guild or the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre for more information on Lynn Kirk and other Saskatchewan playwrights and their work .

• demonstrate commitment to roles assumed within the dramatic situation

Tell the students that a "park bench" or "lifeboat" play is one in a confined space where the characters meet by chance or force of circumstance. Usually the time period covered in the play is short and something happens to the characters so that, at the end of the play, they are somewhat changed (Coryell, 1981). Ask the students if they think Men and Angels is this kind of play. Why or why not? Ask the students what they think the strengths and limitations of this kind of play might be.