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| When are the characters vulnerable? |
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M: Vulnerability comes at the end.
F: Vulnerability comes at the beginning. They then put on armor. |
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| What are the usual differences in set dressing? |
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| M tend to be more bare; F tend to have more frills. |
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| Are props more important for M or F? Why? |
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| M. Men like to be busy when they talk. They need to be busy. There is a lot of action. |
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| In M, what happens when the action does stop? |
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| There is a moment of vulnerability. |
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| In M, what is usually true about a woman's entrance? |
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| She wants something of the men. She wants action/change, while the men are content. |
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| In M, what are the women's attitude towards men? |
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| They downplay their masculinity. (Except for the lead female. She is for it, and is afraid to show vulnerability until the end when the men do.) |
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| What armor does the central male character in a male-gendered play always have? |
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| He always has someone who can replace him. (In All My Sons, it is Chris.) It's good to cast them similarly. |
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| M: What makes women beautiful? |
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| How do F & M deal with questions? |
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M: avoid questions/emotions
F: full of questions, searching for emotions |
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| When gender is all about secrets? |
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| Male-gendered. And all the action is in order to cover up the secrets. |
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| In M, who is it that usually digs up the secrets? |
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| In M, how are the secrets revealed? |
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| Emotion is required, and this happens at the end. |
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| Which one often has a prominent character never seen? |
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| To keep them busy. They are very important. |
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| True/False: In M, women hold in their emotions. |
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| Which gendered play ends in hope? |
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| Female-gendered. (more abstract) Male-gendered is more concrete. |
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| In M, how do actions and questions change in regards to the men and women? |
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| In the beginning, men act and women question. By the end, the women act and the men question. |
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| What are the ends of male-gendered plays about? |
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| In F, what is more important: design or props? |
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| Which is individually minded, and which is globally minded? |
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F: individually
M: globally |
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| In F, is the language concrete or abstract? |
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| Abstract - lots of connotations. It includes details of life that seem unimportant, but have a deeper meaning. The details are a representation of self. |
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| Which talks more about the external beauty? Why? |
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| F talks more about the external because the internal is assumed. It's about the external finally being validated. |
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| Which tends to be an ensemble play? Why? |
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| F. They're more relationship driven. |
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| Which stasis is about everyone and which is about a specific group? |
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M: everyone
F: specific group |
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| In F, who is the challenger? |
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| The one who needs the least amount of armor. |
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| In F, who is the intruder? |
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| The one who needs the most armor. |
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| In F, how does the conflict between challenger and intruder work? |
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| The challenger wants to help the intruder, and the intruder resists that help. |
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| How do the connections between characters differ between M & F? |
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F: everyone is connected to someone
M: there are some outcasts |
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| With a female alone on the stage. |
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