- The document provides guidelines for a 3 page review paper on the play "King Kong". It outlines the key elements and sections that should be covered in the paper including an introduction, plot summary, discussion of characters, ideas/themes, historical and philosophical context, language, music, visual elements, and a conclusion evaluating the play. The paper must be in essay format and is due within 30 hours.

1. -Play name is "King Kong"
-There should be no plagiarism
-It should be delivered within 30 hours
REVIEW PAPER GUIDELINES (3 pages Maximum!,
Essay format) Introduction
Plot
What happens? E.g., “Mother Courage follows the
misadventures of Courage and her children over a ten year
period during the 100 Years War...”
How does it happen? E.g., “The play is built in a series of
episodes, alternating personal struggles against a backdrop of
the larger social/political struggles.”
What does it mean? A one-two sentence that captures the
essence of the action. In the case of Epic Theatre, this statement
is primarily about the intended “lesson” of the play. E.g., “MC
is about how capitalism inevitably leads to the corruption then
destruction of society—from nations to families.”
Rhythm
Flow of the plots?
Character
Main character Description E.g., “Courage is a middle-aged
mother of three who will stop at nothing to exploit the financial

2. opportunities she encounters. Her role in the play is ‘survivor .’
Her character is the ‘anti-mom’—a woman who sees her
children (and other human beings) as a collection of debits and
credits.”
Second Character Description
Thought—what are the ideas in the play
e.g., Mother Courage looks at the intersection of war and
commerce and how one feeds off the other, to the destruction of
land, civilization, and families. The ideas arise out of the work
of Karl Marx. Summarize--
Historical (Where and When) Philosophical (What & Why)
Diction--
Summarize the language the playwright uses. How do the
characters speak?
E.g., prose, poetry, cliché, long speeches, short, etc.?
Music—
is more than song, but the SOUND of the play. Describe the
aural environment created and executed in the production.
Spectacle
—describe the visual environment of light and scenery created
for the production, and their execution and relevance (e.g., it
could look great but mean nothing, or it could look terrible but
somehow it works!)
Conclusion
A paragraph about your particular feelings about the play—did
it engage you? Were you changed, even a little? Goethe asked

3. three questions—What was it trying to do? How well was it
done? Was it worth doing? Answer these questions.