Warm-up

Justice Workshop: continue scene work

Discussion of scene work

Lunch

Speechmaking/Storytelling: what goes into an effective speech/story?

Brainstorming session: reflections for the final performance

Results from Justice Workshop Part II:

General discussion of definition:
Whe resist definition?

de-fine (Latin fines = boundary, limit)
finding the boundaries of a word; for example, the OED lists all the uses of a word 
in an effort to define what a word does and does not mean.
What is the value of working to find the boundaries of the words we use?

Back to justice...
Can justice include negative or harmful actions?  Should justice as a virtue or in 
a legal sense only be defined in positive terms?  What is the relationship between 
justice and vengeance?

Some of our possible definitions:
Justice is all that is right.
Justice is balance.
Justice is balance through understanding.
Justice is balance through positive action. 

Results from speech-making, story-telling discussion:
What was effective in MLK's 1963 address in D.C.?

range of vocabulary
confidence
transfixing, reassuring voice
      steady and paced
      deliberate
repetition "100 years ago..."
the list of the rising tricolon
knowing your audience
rising volume and tone
use of metaphor

Print out new scripts and rescore into beats and for emotions, and provide strategies for making the words achieve those emotions (for example, through leading, through status, through gesture, through blocking, through vocal range, etc.)

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