A visit to a small planet.
Read this play “a visit to a small planet” and answer the question that follows:
•Is this a public world, or private? What are its classrules? Aristocratic? Popular? Mixed?
•In what kinds of patterns do the figures on this planet arrange themselves?
•Do you see groups in action, isolated individuals, both? Is there a single central figure, surrounded by a group? Are figures matched off in conflicting pairs? Are you seeing the tension of interlocking triangles?
•How do figures appear on this planet? Are they inward or two-dimensional?
Subtle? Exaggerated? Are they like puppets? Like clowns? Like you?
•How do figures dress on this planet? In rags, in gowns, in cardboard cutouts?
Like us?
•How do figures interact? By fighting?
•Who has power on this planet? How is it achieved? Over whom is it exercised?
To what ends is it exercised?
•What are the language habits on this planet? Verse or prose, dialogue or monologue, certainly.