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Page to Stage is a book club for scripts and plays!
How to participate:
Read the script, watch the play, and join our group discussion!
Following the performance at Prospect Theater Project, we’ll be meeting in the Artist Lab.
Location: 1218 K Street Modesto, CA
Time: After the Sunday matinee
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SKYLIGHT
Written by David Hare
Hello again, script-reading enthusiasts!
Which lines and stage directions:
- seem key to understanding the characters’ psychology and motivations?
- allude to Tom and Kyra’s age difference and its effect on their relationship?
- suggest metaphor or archetype — e.g. the cold, inside and out; birds (18); cheese (39)?
- provide essential backstory?
How did the acting and direction imbue both fond reminiscences (30-33) and angry accusations (91-94) with verisimilitude?
Things to ponder:
- Teaching the poor as atonement
- Kyra’s “one really good pupil…one private target” (Tom?)
- What is Kyra learning from her students? Why might that be important to her?
- Tom as Kyra’s father figure/replacement
- The affair as an act of rebellion
- Edward opening and closing the play–Why?
- What might become of Kyra & Edward?
- Women as possessions, specifically for men with wealth and power (Alice, 68)
- Class reversals: Tom “I come from bog-ordinary people” (74) vs Kyra “I thought you were going to get lots of money,” and Tom “Ah, well, yes, I thought so as well” (66). Edward’s aversion to growing up privileged, “spoilt” and envious of those “not on the ladder” (11).
By the end of the play, how might the encounter between Tom and Kyra have changed them? What do you think might follow?
PTP’s production of Skylight, directed by Founding Artistic Director Jack Souza and featuring Laura Dickinson-Turner, Harry Stoner, and Kyle Holman, opens Friday January 31. Click here for the box office. Our Page to Stage discussion will be held Sunday, February 9, after the matinee performance. The final weekend matinee will be followed by Talk Back with the entire cast and crew.
If you’ve ordered a copy of the script, contact Ally ally@prospecttheaterproject.
Meanwhile, let us know if you have any questions, and we’ll look forward to seeing you at the theater!
Prospect Theater Project
Page to Stage Season 2024-25
Lucas Hnath, The Thin Place (2021) opens 9/20, discussion 9/29
Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, The Shark Is Broken (2019) opens 11/15, discussion 11/24
David Hare, Skylight (1995) opens 1/31 discussion 2/9
Lauren Gunderson, The Revolutionists (2018) opens 3/21 discussion 3/30
Bertolt Brecht, The Mother (1932) opens 6/13 discussion 6/22