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@@chrislusk3497 Thank you for letting me know. I’m glad you found it worthwhile.

So glad to hear that!

Are you having a bad day? Of course I'm giving a general overview, for the benefit of my undergraduates, for whom everything that happened "back in the nineteen hundreds" is a history lesson. Of course there are other sources of information. What do you recommend? From one of your playlists it looks like you are a big fan of old movies. Would you rather share your thoughts and actually have a conversation with someone who might appreciate your insights, or are you just trolling for kicks?

You can play the games on any platform -- the output is HTML, so it should work in any somewhat recent web browser. If you mean can you create ChoiceScript games using just an android, I don't know. I haven't followed these instructions, but here's someone else's response to a similar question. forum.choiceofgames.com/t/choice-script-on-my-android-phone/34106/3

I’m glad to know you found it so helpful. Thanks for letting me know.

I learned late in life, but the only and best way to learn a play is to watch it. RUclips is a marvel. Then, reading it can refine my understanding.

That's a great one, and in fact my daughter and I were just talking about one of Amanda's monologues this morning, but no, I don't have a video on that one.

@@DennisGJerzSHU Wow! What did you talk about? Her "Malaria fever and jonquils" Monologues??? I have to perform this on Monday at East West Theater in LA. Love to hear your take on this.

@karinok She was talking about helping a student of hers recognize the multiple ways in which Amanda’s typewriter school monologue is manipulative. Break a leg in your performance! Come back and tell me how it went, if you like.

@@DennisGJerzSHU Thank you Dennis!

I'm honored, but I've seen more than a few that are much better than this! Glad you found it helpful.

I think you should still read it! You can put on a RUclips recording while you fold laundry or go for a walk.

@@DennisGJerzSHU thank u so much i dicovered your channel with this video i am studying American Culture and Literature actually i think your videos will be a huge help:")

I'm glad you found it helpful!

What a very gracious response. I'm glad to know you found this so helpful.

I'm so glad to know you found this helpful!

I'm glad to know you found my video useful.

With Inform 7 it's theoretically possible, but I don't think anyone has created all the libraries and support systems that would be needed to do so. There were many such libraries for Inform 6. ganelson.github.io/inform-website/book/WI_27_27.html As a test, I Googled for "interactive fiction spanish" and found this page: www.ifwiki.org/History_of_Interactive_Fiction_in_Spain You might also search IFDB.com, where I found a list of German adventure games. ifdb.org/viewlist?id=3c4rcpa6xzzyitut

Thank you for your kind note, Lucas. I'm glad to know you found this lecture useful for your own studies.

Thank you. To help students understand the context of the play, the main ideas I wanted to get across were that an 1) uprising took the aristocracy down, and 2) the peasants didn't wind up in control. In my attempts to boil a complex issue down into a few bullet points, I -- who profess no expertise in Russian history -- didn't do the topic justice.

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Glad it was helpful!

Hello, I'm glad you found this helpful. I don't have any experience teaching high school, but I as a white person I learned a lot about the "Middle Passage" as an important cultural ritual. I'd say it's important to get young people to understand the difference between reading a script (that has to be interpreted by the creative choices of the director and actors, as well as costumers, lighting designers, etc), and watching someone else's interpretation. If there's an African history center in your area, or anyone with personal experience in the kinds of participatory, creative dramatizations of a shared cultural experience, that might be a starting point. As a Christian I grew up very familiar with Christmas nativity pageants and an in-church participatory dramatization of the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus, but those aren't really designed to create a *change* in the participants. So I think some discussion of what the detailed stage directions mean, and what impact the experience will have on the live audience as well as the characters on stage, would be appropriate.

Thank you for the feedback. I'm glad to know it was helpful!

When I teach Chekhov in a class full of creative writers I usually do mention his short stories, but I wanted to keep this video lecture a bit more focused. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

It's interesting

That sounds rather like a homework question to me. What do you know about the politics of England at the time? What were some debates, controversies, discoveries, or problems Shakespeare’s contemporaries were facing (or ignoring) at the time? Where in the play do the characters face (or avoid, or at least talk about) similar issues?

Babies are unpredictable and noisy, so any time a baby appears in a live play we can expect it to be represented by a doll. I don't think the presence of a doll on stage is enough to read Gladys the way you suggest, but perhaps an individual director might want to cast it that way.

@@DennisGJerzSHU well obviously they can’t have a real baby on stage. But from a play inside a play point of view it could have double meaning. What is the thought of all the double talk about I use to have two sons? And now we have 1. And that she only had 2 kids? Is it suppose to be assumed the girl is adopted?

I think the most likely interpretation is that Gladys happened to show up the usual way, right around the time when Cain killed Abel, so the number of kids the Antrobuses have was still two, just not the same two. If you think of this play as Wilder's hopeful prediction that the human race will survive thanks to the resilience of the traditional family unit, then it makes the most sense for Gladys and her baby to have arrived the traditional way. A director who does a gender-blind and race-blind casting can turn any traditional play into a commentary about present-day values and relationships. If the point you want to make is that human civilization is going to continue via found families, made up of individuals who create their own identities and find each other, I don't see lines in "The Skin of Our Teeth" that support that idea. Because my professional focus is on the words written in the scripts, rather than what it's possible to do with those words in a production, then to explore "found family" I would not look at Skin, I'd instead look to "Rent" or "Into the Woods" or "In the Heights."

Interesting….. I really don’t know much about theater and just saw this play last night and it hit really hard. After looking up the writer I found that he never married, was more than likely a member of the LGBQIA+ community and back in a time when it was not safe to be. The play made much more sense to me after I learned this. The crowd at the Theater was much older than the group I was with and it was an interesting perspective that most people there would not of understood.

Thank you for your kind words. I'm glad you found it helpful.

I'm glad to know you found it interseting!

Oops, did I misspeak? Thanks for the correction.

Thanks for letting me know.

Thank you for your feedback. I just saw a live production for the first time a few days ago. There's always more to learn about a good play.

I'm glad you found it helpful, Kevin.

Great analysis thank U Sir for helping me to understand the story better now

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I'm glad to know that! Thanks for your comment.