Performance Analysis –The Wolves by Sarah deLappe Please read the play before seeing the performance. The purpose is tocompare how you imagined the voices and choices of the characters as you read the text, with what you later saw presented on stage. I’m looking for your justification of your ideasand/or how your view changed based on whatyou sawin the live performance. Keep it close to 750 words. If you go over, make every word magical and every sentence a dream. You will be marked for grammar and clarity. Answer these questions after reading the play: What was your intellectual response to the play?What was your emotional response to the play?What images, colours, shapes, textureswereevokedfor youas you read the play? Circumstances:What is the time of the play? (Date? Year? Season? Time of day?) Where is the play set? Country? Geography? Environment?What is the historical, social and political context of the play? What is the climate, weather, of the world of the play and scene? Character:Write a brief character sketchof one character.Describe the relationship of thischaracter to the others. Choose onescene, and describe the given circumstances and “moment before” for this character.What are your character’s objectives? Whattactics do they use to accomplish them? After seeing the play, compare/contrast what you saw with what you imagined. Did it match what you thought it looked like? Did you get a sense of the time/place/history of the play? Did the actor/director’s interpretationof the charactermatch yours? How was the scene the same or different from your interpretation?
