Here is the description of the assignment:

First read Michael Mark Chemers' instructions for writing a production history. Then, choose a play from the list below.

For this assignment you will turn in a production history like the one outlined by Chemers for a specific, significant production of the play you chose. You will also submit a 1pg. summary of the play's critical reception that summarizes what was unique and important about this particular production and correctly cites in MLA format a variety of articles responding to the play.  You will also turn in a 2 pg. dramaturg's note that would accompany the program of a contemporary performance of this play. Your dramaturg's note should answer the question: "Why This Play Now?" as articulated by Chemers in the attachment.

You may choose your play from the following list:

• The Dutchman by Amiri Baraka
• Hot N' Throbbing by Paula Vogel
• Pentecost by David Edgar
• Translations by Brian Friel
• Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
• The Clown Show by Jean Genet
• RUR by Karel Čapek
• The Color of Justice by Richard Norton Taylor
• Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
• For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
• The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill
• Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
• Hamletmachine by Heiner Müller
• Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights by Gertrude Stein