"Dramaturg"

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Study guide
I have to write a study guide
Internship for a grade
Before me now my task is laid
Internship and have the script
Call me dramaturge

Have at it then

Read the script but don’t know much
Not sure what the guide should touch
So I know what this has to mean
Research and search again

Google search in the lurch
Not sure where to start
Just type in Orphan of Zhao
All I got to go on

Something maybe God, I hope
Pages turn eyes burn
Read on so I can write

Not too many treasures here
This is wrong, that’s not enough
Yuan Dynasty there’s a lead
Guess it’s worth a try.

Clicking keys,
Yuan Dynasty,
Click it in and search.

Reading now, reading and reading

Reading lots means lots of leads
Is this really what I need?
Making lists of bits and pieces
Hoping they make sense
When’s this due again?

Yuan Dynasty’s not the way
Not getting what I need today
I’ve follow keywords and lots of leads
That lead me into walls.

Reading and thinking
Rethinking and rereading

Study guide brain fried
Lots of work that didn’t work
Where do go from here?

Reading and thinking
Rethinking and rereading

Back to my lists.
My lists I take to keywords make
And make another try.

Author’s name time period context history kind of play
Could any of these be the way?

Google bar
Keywords are
Click click click
Orphan of Zhao
Cheng Ying
Yuan dynasty
Give me something good.

Reading on hours gone
But now it’s worth the read.
More results, more pages, lots to work with
If I can do the work.

Volume now is the way
Grasp everything they have to say
Now I see there’s one precious fact
To glean from every one.

Reading more on and on
Now the right way starts to dawn

List grows!
Google bar
Keywords are
Click click click
Orphan of Zhao
Cheng Ying
Yuan dynasty
Ji Jixiang
Yuan zaju
State of Jin
Spring and Autumn Period
Now there’s something here.

Reading and thinking
Rethinking and rereading

How much have I got?
Is this right or is it not?
Now find what I need to say
Formulate order plan and shape

Now I know what I will say
Dramatic form we’re getting warm
What makes up a yuan zaju
Poetry song festival evolving drama-style
History context state of the time
I think these will do just fine
Erhu yangquin that girl has the same name
Period people goings-on
That helped to shape the way
Things that helped to make this play

What can we learn, what can they?
What lessons can come from this play?
Got it got it now we’re on
Values mindset us and them
The things they do because of things done to them
Say the culture say the mindset
Now the connections start to form
There’s the ticket that has bite
Now I have a lot to write

Origins – Form – History – Commentary – Understanding
Write and write and rewrite again

What made the play
About the form
Where the story comes from
What it meant to say
What we can gather from it

Just eight pages, is it right?
Too much or not enough?
Will I get to sleep tonight?

Edit now, check check check
Hope this is what she wants
Write the e-mail, add the file
Sit in nervousness a while
Wait for her to see my work
And pray I’ve got it right

Finally she’s gotten back
And there is nothing that it lacks
She is pleased and praises me
And what she says amazes me

Heave a huge sigh of relief
The task that ate my brain so long
I’ve done and done it right

Done with that but not all done
Now the part she calls the fun
Going to the high school now
To teach the teachers about the guide
We climb into her car and ride

To the school off we go
On our way what to say?
I don’t even know.

Here we are find the words
Somehow they all come to me
She says they paid attention more
Than she has ever seen before

And now it’s done I’ve made it through
My guide has done what it was meant to do
And now I’ve been a dramaturge

And finally I rest.