Day 2

Blood Relations Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    Pollock's "kaleidoscopic worlds"

    Kind of Activity:

    Performance

    Objective:

    Students will reflect on discussion prompts, create original collages, and act out a scene from the play.

    Structure:

    In today’s activity, we will explore what Anne Nothof described as the “kaleidoscopic worlds” of Pollock’s plays: “variable images through words, sounds, light, colour, movement” offering “alternative perspectives, realities, choices” (Introduction to the 2002 NeWest edition of Blood Relations).

    To begin, the following questions might be posed to the class:

    -What is the effect, in Blood Relations, of having such a sparse set (one room, with no furniture changes and no...

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