Reading for next week; what to do if you didn't go to BLACK WATCH

Hey all:

After much consideration, I feel it is important to read Martin McDonagh's brilliantly haunting play THE PILLOWMAN. I was going to wait a few weeks but after much consideration, I think it will work next week for a variety of reasons. First, we haven't met as a class for awhile. Tonight is the midterm, last week was the play and the week before that was a class on Black Watch which many of you skipped. That's the major problem for a night class--cohesiveness. So, I would like to spend next week with a meaty text that we will be able to sit down and dissect togteher as a class. (In our next classes, you will be finding many of your own texts and dissecting them in groups). The Pillowman is a harsh, weighty and suspenseful look at the art and consequences of creating stories in a world that has gone a little bit haywire. It's not a long play but please give yourself the time to read and think about it. It is not an easy play to digest so please get your thoughts about it on your blogs.

After this, we will then get into different types of texts (graffiti, new media, film etc) so let's all roll up our sleeves and get to work!

For those of you who did not attend the performance of Black Watch, I would like you to write a three page essay answering the following question:

Find a specific difference between the print version of Shooting War and the on-line version of the book found here. Your essay should identify this difference and then give a detailed analysis of why you think that the two versions are different in this area. You may bring in outside information or our other texts in this class to help back up your point.