Description The Basics: The paper should be: 1. 700-800 words 2. double-spaced 3. written in no ...

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Description The Basics: The paper should be: 1. 700-800 words 2. double-spaced 3. written in no larger than 12-point font, with no more than 1-inch margins, and 4. preferably in MLA format The Subject: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson The Prompt: The paper is a critical analysis of the University Theatre production of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. This paper is NOT a review of the production, and the focus of the assignment is not about whether or not you liked the play. Instead you’ll be following the guidelines below, which include specific evidence required from the play text, the play in performance, and class material. The assignment is to choose 1-2 questions from Fuchs essay “EF’s Visit to a Small Planet: Some Questions to Ask a Play” and explore how the production communicates the answers through at least two production elements as identified by Barbara Clayton’s “Guide to Basic Elements of Theatrical Production”. Steps to Writing the Paper: Before attending Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, familiarize yourself with Fuchs central questions as noted on course slides and in her essay. You may want to keep these questions handy to refer to at intermission or right after the play. Then, consider your experience attending Joe Turner’s Come and Gone as “a visit to a small planet.” Choose 1-2 questions from Fuchs that the production answers and that you’d like to explore in your essay. (You may end up exploring more than one of Fuch’s questions as sometimes there’s overlap in the questions–examples will be given in lecture.) Now, write an essay that articulates the following: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone communicates _____________ (answer to one or more of Fuchs questions) through _____________ (production elements). NOTE: This is NOT an exact template for a thesis! Ask yourself HOW the production communicated those answers through at least two production elements. Requirements: Your essay must have a clear thesis. Your essay must include the following sources in supporting your analysis: Direct text evidence (quotes) from “EF’s Visit to a Small Planet: Some Questions to Ask a Play” by Elinor Fuchs Direct text evident (quotes) from “Guide to Basic Elements of Theatrical Production” by Barbara Clayton Direct text evidence (quotes) from Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson (the play script itself) Specific details of at least two production elements of the University Theatre production of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone Other class material: topics, ideas, and terminology from class lectures/discussions and/or assigned reading/viewing/listening for the course (Details will be discussed in class.) You must include a bibliography and an AI statement. Evaluation: As in all things, clarity counts. The way you organize your argument counts. A rubric for this paper will be distributed separately. A Note about AI: The following is taken directly from the course syllabus: AI I highly discourage the use of any AI resources in written assignments, as doing so undermines the learning objectives of the course–not to mention the fact that AI is not always reliable or accurate. Though I understand that AI resources might be useful in some limited contexts, students are not permitted to submit any text that is generated by AI tools and applications (including, but not limited to, ChatGPT, Copilot, DALL-E, and others) for course assignments and assessments. More details will be discussed in class regarding what might be an acceptable use of AI beyond this prohibition. Each written assignment will require the inclusion of an AI statement, which will require you to state either a) that you did not use AI in any way to complete this assignment, or b) an articulation of how you used AI in completing the assignment (knowing that any AI generated text is prohibited). Using AI to generate text is a violation of the course’s policies and will be addressed through UW–Madison’s academic misconduct policy, specifically UWS 14.03(1)b (b).