For this midterm exam you will be assigned one of several possible scenes in Dominique Morriseau’s Pipeline.
Read your scene (and even the play) again. Having Pipeline at Lincoln Center, jot down notes about the mise en scene choices for your assigned scene.
Identify the Scene number you are writing on, then identify the central action of your scene, and the character that takes this action.
Detail your character’s main objective, and how their action helped them work towards that objective.
Explain how the character’s objective and action relate back to the play’s intrusion.
Then, trace out how this central action relates sequentially to a central action that occurred in the previous scene (IE what was the trigger for your scene)?
Finally, explain how does this central action produces or tcript alonea major action in the next scene.
In the second paragraph:
Describe one element of the mise-en-scene in your assigned scene.
Reflect on what you learned about Pipeline by seeing/watching vs. reading the play. What about the play became clear or stood out to you after witnessing the live production? What big take aways did the live performance leave you with that you would not have gleamed from the script alone?
