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The Modern Prometheus — DATES: February 2, 2015—February 27, 2015 (14 Days)
— GENRE(S): Modern Drama — CURRICULAR OBJECTIVES: Persuasive Writing in Context, Significant Influence — TEXTS: Frankenstein, “Tribes” |
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Tribes
A tribe is any group of people, large or small, who are connected to one another, a leader, and an idea. For millions of years, humans have been seeking out tribes, be they religious, ethnic, economic, political, or even musical. It’s our nature. Now the Internet has eliminated the barriers of geography, cost, and time. All those social networking sites are helping existing tribes get bigger. But more important, they’re enabling countless new tribes to be born; groups of ten or ten thousand or ten million who care about their iPhones, or a political campaign, or a new way to fight global warming. And so the key question: Where do you belong?
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Dr. Cook's Garden (MODERN DRAMA OPTION #1 )
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A young doctor returns to his New England home town after a long absence. He visits with the town's kindly old physician, Dr. Cook, a man he has admired since childhood. However, he soon finds out that the old doctor isn't quite what he seems to be, and the young doctor finds his life in danger.
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Frankenstein (MODERN DRAMA OPTION #2)
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Mary Shelley wrote the original novel, Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus, when she was 19, after she and her lover, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their friend Lord Byron agreed that each would write a ghost story. Mary's living creature is created by a young Swiss scientist, Victor Frankenstein, and this monster has found a lasting place in the popular imagination. This play, by Alden Nowlan, is exciting and theatrical but true to the source material.
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