The Great Computer Cheeseburger Play
A Fine Melodrama especially designed for
Stage, Screen, Classroom, Home, or Computer
"The Great Computer Cheeseburger Play" may be presented on
stage, on screen (large or small), in the classroom, at home, or on the
computer. It's a flexible unplay-if there is such a thing. This may be
the first one in history. You, therefore, qualify as a pioneer in computer-based
drama.
You will want to act out "The Great Computer Cheeseburger Play"
with your classmates or friends, and you must remember to overact. That
makes it more fun. Moan loudly and so on. Wave your arms wildly-if the
script says so, which it may or may not. Work on the script and play by
yourself or with others. Be crazy. Let your imagination ignite with your
best ideas.
When presenting "The Great Computer Cheeseburger Play" on
computer, copy the text into your word processor (and add the missing parts,
of course, and some pictures) or redo the play in a presentation program
or a slide show. If you're using a presentation program, add pictures,
graphics, images from the Internet, and perhaps even short video segments.
It will become your own play on computer, your stage on your monitor.
Be fully aware that this is not the everyday, usual play you are used
to putting on in school or at home. You know, the boring kind. This is
a play that finishes with each part or scene, almost, but never ends. Another
part, scene, or act is always beginning. Watch for these dramatic adventures
to appear here at the Apple site.
Actually, I admit, it's a strange play, but it was written by a computer.
Computers have a rather unusual sense of humor. You'll see what I mean.
"The Great Computer Cheeseburger Play," for example, doesn't
have all its words either. And its characters won't have names until you
. . . . And it sends you off to the Internet to find . . . .
Well, let's go ahead and begin. Take a deep breath because you are the
Director and Playwright, and you've got to make this the best play you
ever presented. Now, if you have never presented a play by yourself before,
then it will definitely be the best. I'm sure it will be anyway.
I suggest that you read through Scene 1 first, fill in the parts the
computer didn't bother to do, think about your direction, and then try
to tell your parents or teacher exactly what it is you want to do with
this unplay.
There are lots of characters in the play so that everyone in a class
can have a part-eventually, but maybe not in Scene 1. If you are doing
the play with a few friends or a smaller group, you as the dynamic, diplomatic*
director, should change the names of who says what.
*Diplomatic means you aren't going to upset anyone by giving more parts
to some people and not to other people or give all the good parts to your
best friends and . . . .
On with the show!
Play Setting:
Your classroom, on the Information Highway, and beyond.
Setting for Scenes
You find out.
Characters:
Your Classmates
GC the Computer
The Tires
Assorted Other Characters
Anybody or Anything You Wish to Include
Director:
You
Playwright:
You
Act I - Outer Space Adventures
Act II - Washington, DC Adventures
Act III - Think Different - A Play within a Play
Check this area
for more exciting adventures to be added to "The Great Computer Cheeseburger
Play.
Dr. M
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