Autobiographical Worksheet

Most of the information can be surmised from the script, the rest of the information you will have to fill in with research and your imagination. Nothing must contradict information given in the play.

Autobiographical Worksheet:

1. Who?

a. What is my personal history?

b. What is my present state of being?

c. How do I perceive myself physically?

i. Mentally?

ii. Morally?

iii. Socially?

v. Spiritually?

d. What are my emotional relationships?

e. What am I wearing?

2. When?

a. What is the year?

b. What is the date and time?

c. What is the weather?

d. How does “when?” affect my life?

3. Where?

a. In what city/suburb/rural location am I?

b. What are my immediate surroundings?

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c. How do the city and immediate surroundings affect my life?

d. What are the social and spiritual customs and political tendencies of my family?

i. Neighborhood?

ii. Group?

iii. Society?

e. Does my age, race, gender or aesthetic constrain or liberate me? How?

4. What?

a. What has just happened prior to the events in the script?

b. What is happening presently?

c. What is my attitude toward the unfolding events?

d. How does my attitude differ from that of my family, friends, or society?

e. What do I expect to happen in the future?

5. Why?

a. What is my motivating force?

b. What happens if I succeed? Fail?

6. How?

a. What stands in my way of achieving my goals?

b. What is my “will” to get what I want?