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1 <br />N <br />LIGHTS, CAMERA, <br />Before <br />the ACTION! <br />show <br />CAST OF CHARACTERS <br />• Jackie Robinson, national baseball hall of fame, broke baseball's color barrier <br />• Mallie Robinson, Jackie's mother <br />• Mack Robinson, Jackie's brother and Olympic track and field athlete <br />• Isaac Murphy, Kentucky Derby Champion <br />• Langston Hughes, famous American writer <br />• Paul Robeson, famous American actor and musician <br />• Fritz Pollard, American football star <br />• Adolph Hitler, leader of Germany's Third Reich from 1934 -1945 <br />• Mayor of Clarksville Tennessee, 1960 <br />• Howard Cosell, sport's announcer <br />• Branch Rickey, President of Brooklyn Dodgers (1940s) <br />• Charley Thomas, Ohio Wesleyan baseball player <br />SETTING <br />Modern Day <br />SYNOPSIS <br />Jackie Robinson was an athlete who pushed the color barrier to its breaking point when he <br />became the first African American to play America's favorite game for a major league team. <br />Baseball fans and players reacted to Robinson with everything from unbridled enthusiasm <br />evident in newspaper headlines to wariness and open hostility expressed in bean ball pitches <br />and death threats. <br />A GAME APART provides a glimpse of the ghost of a bygone era of separate and <br />unequal locker rooms, of whites only hotels, and of restaurants with only a back door for <br />Colored Athletes to enter. Witness the hopeless humiliation of a star player and a second <br />hand citizen. Learn about role models of the outfield, the backcourt, the track, the ring, the <br />blacktop, and the mud. A GAME APART is a powerful lesson of courage through dedication, <br />perseverance, and leadership. <br />After <br />the � <br />show = `�-�- <br />THINK ABOUT IT!„ <br />When actors play many different <br />roles or characters, it is called <br />doubling. How did you see <br />doubling being used in this one <br />man show? What strategies did the <br />actor use to communicate that he <br />was changing characters? Can you <br />think of some different ways the <br />actor could have accomplished this <br />task? <br />DO IT! <br />The style of this play is a <br />documentary. What root word can <br />you find in the word documentary? <br />Write your own definition of <br />the word. Then, look it up in a <br />dictionary, and compare your <br />definition with what you find. <br />What specific written materials do <br />you think were used to create the <br />script for this play? <br />A Documentary is a type of genre <br />for plays, movies, books, and other <br />texts. Name some other genres. <br />What is your favorite genre? <br />0 <br />0 <br />m <br />m <br />0 <br />0 <br />