The Producer Project (30%): This assignment asks you to think creatively about how you’d adapt one of the texts we’ve read in this course for a modern production. Marshalling your skills in research, critical reading, and creative thinking, you will write what Hollywood or Broadway producers call a “treatment,” or a synopsis of a film or stage production, considering carefully a text’s movement between page and stage in all its aspects. Will this version of the play be historically accurate? Will it modernize its location in order to revitalize its themes for our time? Does it work better as a musical? Maybe it should be an epic blockbuster starring all the hottest A-listers? Or perhaps you imagine it in terms of a low-budget indie film? Whatever route you choose, your task is to immerse yourself in the world of the play, constructing a pitch that would get me (your big-money financier) to greenlight its production while having fun and remaining true to the drama’s spirit. Final projects will be approx. 1800-2000 words (6-8 pages); students may consult with the instructor regarding alternative (e.g. creative) ways of completing aspects of the assignment; group work strongly encouraged. Don’t sleep on this project—ace-ing it is tougher than it seems!