Poets Outline!!!!

Poets Corner – the Skeleton :::  !

what is Our story? Love

who are we? Poets 

who says play/pause? 

Choir 

** Setting:  MUSEUM (Statues/Images coming to Life)

* Lighting – 3 isolated pools of light (stage left, center, right) dim warm light for transitions, harsh white light with blue undertones

* Sound – ‘tick’s for dance, gunshot

* Costumes – janitor robe, solid color clothing (try at tech)

* Props – *dollies, blocks 

* Set – 

(MIC – Announcement by Directors/Dylan)

1. Chiraag (Curator) makes announcement, introducing to Museum ( Museum Lighting

2. DANCE (All Poets) (spotlights with colors)

3. Chiraag – introduces character (vaguely) (Museum Lighting)

4. IDENTITY (Konstantin, Krys, Ivan)  (Spotlights)

5. FATHERS (Chessa, Akiva) (Stage right and stage left spots)

6. WAR @ HOME (Ivan) (Bring up center spot dim stage right and stage left)

TRANSITION (dollie, set up display)  (Museum Lighting)

7. DRUGS (Aaron, Akiva) (Stage right and stage left pools)

8. LOVE (Sam, Leslie, Anna Marie)  (Center light)

9. EMOTIONS (Marlene) (Center Spot)

10. SHATTERED DREAMS OF HOPE (Imani, Aaron, Konstantine) (Full Stage lit with red rinse) (gunshot sound here) (BLACKOUT)

- black out – TRANSITION midnight tour guide thru audience

11. GRACIAS (Imani, Chessa, Marlene, Patrick) (Pool of light stage left transition into whole stage red rinse with stage right spot and center spot)

12. FATHERS (Krys, Leslie) (Full stage lit)

13. JUSTICE (Anna Marie, Montoya, Sam) (harsh white light with blue undertones)

(BLACKOUT)

14. LOGLINES (All Poets) (Start with center, add more lights as people come on stage)(Stage dim on Imani’s last line, pool of light come up stage left over piano as Imani walks over) (Once Imani starts playing, pool of lights come up center stage and dim lights with color stage right)

15. THE SONG (All Poets) **Ivan Dance

After breakdown on piano stage right lights Full Stage Brightly Lit. End of song Blackout)