Scheduled another visit to the Beineke to take a look at the Toomer archives, this time with a focus on his letters. Many of which are included in the Norton Critical Edition of Cane, but I want to see if there are any gaps.
Picked up a number of biographies to set down the exact time frame for both the composition of Cane and for his brief yet eventful stay in Georgia. All this for the Dramaturgical packet I am putting together.
Also gathering all the secondary sources on Cane I’ve looked through. I don’t think I will have anything essay-wise to say about these sources, so instead an annotated bibliography should suffice.
Beginning to format the raw text from the Black Drama archive into Celtx for proper script format, which is painfully time-consuming.
I see there are going to be these main sections of the final project to provide by the end of the month:
- Introduction
- Annotated Bibliography
- Dramaturgy Packet
- This will include a summary, author’s biography and timeline, historical background, the geographic and political details of the setting, images relating to the characters and setting, considerations about the dialect, the themes, the manner of composition, an overview of other theatrical works by Toomer, as well as a rundown of the characters and a glossary
- This is not intended to be complete: the dialect portion especially deserves more study than I have time to give
- Production Diary
- This will include first day speech, rough schedule, and rehearsal considerations
- Notes on rehearsal exercises
- Formatted script of several of the vignettes
- Partial formatted script of Kabnis, with annotations
- Drafts of syntheses of Kabnis and the vignettes, to work from