GOALS FOR "LOVE,CANDY"

Our Goals For The "Love, Candy" Workshops Are To Address The Following Questions.

QUESTION ONE:How can the ideas of Beauty and Transformation best be used as tools in this piece?
(1) How does the “before” of transformation inform both the “after” and the transformation itself? (Note that the idea of a “before” and “after” should not be taken to mean two static states, but rather a series of continuing transformations and evolutions that incorporate various befores and afters)
(2) How can Erica create a detailed relationship between her audience and Candy’s “before moments?”/ What are the small moments that allow the audience/reader to be familiar with Candy’s transformations?
(3) What is the range of visceral, sensory details that Erica can employ in staging Candy’s transformation?
Of those details, which have maximum impact, and which are most useful toward building the relationship between Candy and the audience, toward the journey of Candy and the audience.

QUESTION TWO: What is the role of Andy Warhol (and all that he represents) in this play?
(1) What existing images and ideas about Warhol do audience members bring with them into the piece? How can Erica capitalize on/ play with these ideas?
(2) How do you see history/truth working in this play? Is there a difference between history fact and truth?
(3) How might other figures/conceptions/misconceptions of Warhol’s N.Y., or the 60s, or Pop Art be played with and incorporated?


QUESTION THREE: What is the Form of this play?
(1) What patterns emerge for the audience when watching the play in its current form?
(2) What are the images, details, and events on which the audience’s experience of the play hinges?
(3) What other images, details and events would, if included, most serve to shape the experience Erica would like her audience to have? (or the experience you find yourself having or not having)…