TH 1001 Intro to Theatre Daily Schedule
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TH 1001 Introduction to Theatre
Daily Schedule

 

Day Date Topic Assignment
Wed Sept 3 Introduction, syllabus, text,
discussion forum
Fri Sept 5 Web Crossing Demonstration
Preferences, Searches
Web Crossing Assignment:
Introduce yourself! Face-to-face group meetings.

Mon Sept 8 Theatre Production

Video: The Making of Miss Saigon, Part I

Wed Sept 10 Theatre Production

Video: The Making of Miss Saigon, Part II

Fri Sept 12 Optional Attendance:
Web Crossing
Web Crossing Assignment: Chapters 1 & 2
Theatre in Today's World

Mon Sept 15

Playwrighting

Video: Edwin Wilson interview with Marsha Norman

'Night Mother with Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft

More about Marsha Norman

Wed Sept 17 Playwrighting

Guest Speaker: Tom Isbell, Josh Hinke

Chapters 1 & 2 Web Crossing Assignment Due

Fri Sept 19 Optional Attendance:
Web Crossing
Web Crossing Assignment: Chapters 3 & 4
Audiences and Critics

Mon Sept 22 Stage Performers Acting in Film, Part I
More about Michael Cain
Wed Sept 24 Stage Performers

Acting in Film, Part II

Chapters 3 & 4 Web Crossing Assignment Due

Fri Sept 26 Optional Attendance:
Web Crossing

Web Crossing Assignment: Chapter 5
Acting


Mon Sept 29

Theatre Production

Guest Speaker: Gina Brown & Allen Voigt, Directors
Stage 2 Production Company

Meet in Dudley Experimental Theatre


Wed Oct 1

Stage Performers

Guest Speaker: Kelly Grussendorf, Acting

Chapter 5 Web Crossing Assignment Due

Fri Oct 3 Optional Attendance:
Web Crossing

Web Crossing Assignment: Chapter 6
Playwrights


Mon Oct 6

Stage Performers

Guest Speaker: Brett Rickaby, Acting

Wed Oct 8 Directing

Video: The Baachae: Wine to Water

Chapter 6 Web Crossing Assignment Due

Fri Oct 10 Web Crossing Web Crossing Assignment: Chapters 7 & 8
Dramatic Genres & Directing

Mon Oct 13 Directing

Guest Speaker: Bill Payne, Directing

Wed Oct 15 Theatrical Design:
Scenery

Guest Speaker: Ashley Woods, Costume Designer for Seussical
Erin Muhs, Costume Designer for Hummingbirds

Chapters 7 & 8 Web Crossing Assignment Due

Fri Oct 17 Web Crossing Web Crossing Assignment: Chapter 9
Theatre Spaces

Mon Oct 20 Theatrical Design:
Costumes

Guest Speaker: Alex Rugowski, Scenic Designer for Hummingbirds
Curtis Phillips, UMD Theatre Scene Design Faculty

Meet in Marshall Performing Arts Center Main Theatre

Wed Oct 22 Theatrical Design:
Lighting

Guest Speaker: Mark Harvey, Lighting Designer

Class Cancelled

Seussical
7:30 PM
Marshall Performing Arts Center

Cast Q & A following performance

Chapter 9 Web Crossing Assignment Due

Fri Oct 24 Web Crossing Web Crossing Assignment: Chapters 10 & 11
Scenery, costumes , Lighting & Sound for the Theatre

Mon Oct 27

Tour Marshall Performing
Arts Center

Meet in Marshall Performing Arts Center Main Theatre

Wed Oct 29 Midterm Review Chapters 10 &11 Web Crossing Assignment Due
Fri Oct 31 Web Crossing Web Crossing Assignment: Chapter 12
Profile of a Production

Mon Nov 3 Midterm Exam Midterm Exam
Wed Nov 5 Theatre Production

Guest Presentation:

Katy Helbacka , Renegade Comedy Theatre

Christine Seitz, Duluth Playhouse

Chapter 12 Web Crossing Assignment Due

Fri Nov 7 Web Crossing Web Crossing Assignment: Chapter 13
Greek and Roman Theatre

Mon Nov 10 Greek Theatre

Video: Antigone
More about Sophocles

Wed Nov 12 Eastern Theatre

Video: Julie Taymor
More about Julie Taymor

Chapter 13 Web Crossing Assignment Due

Fri Nov 14 Web Crossing Web Crossing Assignment: Chapter 14
Asian and Medieval Theatre

Mon Nov 17 Playwrighting

Guest Speaker: Jeannine Coulombe, playwright
Hummingbirds

Wed Nov 19 Shakespeare

Video: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
More about William Shakespeare

Chapter 14 Web Crossing Assignment Due

Fri Nov 21 Web Crossing Web Crossing Assignment: Chapter 15
Renaissance Theatre

Mon Nov 24 Satirical Comedy
Comedy of Manners

Video: Tartuffe
More about Moliere

Video: The Importance of Being Earnest
More about Oscar Wilde

Wed Nov 26 Realism

Video: Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
More about Anton Chekov

Video: Miss Julie
More about August Strindberg

Video: A Doll's House
More about Henrik Ibsen

Chapter 15 Web Crossing Assignment Due

Fri Nov 28 No Class
Thanksgiving Holiday
Web Crossing Assignment: Chapters 16 & 17
Restoration through Early Modern Theatre

Mon Dec 1 Modern Tragedy

Video: Miller Shorts: Death of a Salesman
More about Arthur Miller

Video: The Glass Menagerie
More about Tennessee Williams

Course Evaluation

Wed Dec 3

Final Review

 

Hummingbirds
7:30 PM
December 4-13
Dudley Experimental Theatre

Chapters 16 & 17 Web Crossing Assignment Due

Fri Dec 5 Web Crossing

Web Crossing Assignment: Chapters 18 & 19
Theatrical Diversity and Contemporary Trends


Mon Dec 8

Non-realism


Class Cancelled

Video: Betwen Beckett and Brecht
More about Samuel Beckett
More about Bertholdt Brecht

 

Wed Dec 10 Theatrical Diversity

Class Cancelled

Video: Raisin in the Sun
More about Lorraine Hansberry

Video: Top Girls
More about Caryl Churchill

Video: Angels in America
More about Tony Kushner

Testimonial Theatre: Anna Deavere Smith

Testimonial Theatre: Sarah Jones

Chapters 18 & 19 Web Crossing Assignment Due

Fri Dec 12 No class

Final Exam: Tuesday, December 16
10:00-11:55 AM

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