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Please note that this reading list will change according to the interests of the program participants. This is a minimum reading list. Participants should endeavor to bring to class additional readings and research materials. Meta Readings: Assigned weekly by chapters. American Set Design Two by Ronn Smith, Ming Cho Lee, Theatre Communications Group; ISBN: 1559360186 Costume Design: Techniques of Modern Masters by Lynn Pecktal, Tony Walton The Lively Art: A Treasury of Criticism, Commentary, Observation, and Insight from Twenty Years of the American Repertory Theatre, ed. by Arthur Holmberg, Jan Geidt, Lynn Kasper ______________________ Week 1 Althusser,Louis. "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," in Mapping Ideology, ed. Zizek, (Verso, 1994), 100-140. Benjamin, Walter, "What is Epic Theater?" in Illuminations, trans. H. Zohn, London: Fontana, 149-156. Fortier, Mark, "Materialist Theory," in Theory/Theatre, Routledge, 101-118. Week 2 The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard, Maria Jolas (Translator), John R. Stilgoe, Beacon Pr; ISBN: 0807064734 Week 3 Auslander, Philip, "Live Performance in a Mediatized Culture," in Liveness, Performance in a Mediatized Culture Routledge, 1999, 10-60. Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," in Illuminations, 217-251 Rayner, Alice "Everywhere and Nowhere: Theatre in Cyberspace," in Of Borders and Thresholds: Theatre History, Practice, and Theory ed. Michal Kobialka Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999, 278-302. Week 4 Piper, Adrian, "Xenophobia and the Indexical Present: Lecture," in Radical Street Performance: A International Anthology ed. Jan Cohen-Cruz London and New York: Routledge, 1998, 125-132 Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne, "The Female Subject in Chicano Theatre: Sexuality, ‘Race,’ and Class," in Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theater ed. Sue-Ellen Case. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, University Press, 1990, 131-149. Berlant, Lauren and Elizabeth Freeman, "Queer Nationality," in Radical Street Performance: A International Anthology ed. Jan Cohen-Cruz London and New York: Routledge, 1998, 133-142. Fortier, Mark, "Postmodern Theory," and "Post-colonial Theory." in Theory/Theatre, Routledge, 118-30. Week 5 Balme, Christopher B., "Spaces and Spectators," in Decolonizing the Stage: Theatrical Syncretism and Post-colonial Drama New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 227-269. Ngugi wa Thiong’o, "The Language of African Theatre," in in Radical Street Performance: A International Anthology ed. Jan Cohen-Cruz London and New York: Routledge, 1998, 238-244. Week 6 Performance Austin, J.L. How To Do Things With Words, chpts 1-3,9,10,12. Week 7 TBAWeek 8 A Journey Through Other Spaces : Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990 by Tadeusz Kantor, Michal Kobialka (Editor) Univ California Press; ISBN: 0520084233 Week 9 Bell, John "Louder than Traffic: Bread and Puppet Parades," in Radical Street Performance: A International Anthology ed. Jan Cohen-Cruz London and New York: Routledge, 1998, 271-281. Fortier, Mark, "Reader-response and Reception Theory," in Theory/Theatre, Routledge, 70-87. Week 10 Presentations Possible Plays for Projects: Mother Courage, Brecht Endgame, Beckett Antigone, Euripides Fences, August Wilson The Rover, Aphra Behn Lysistrata, Aristophenes Fires in the Mirror, Anna Deveare Smith Border Brujo, Guillermo Gomez-Pena (costumes & sets) The Blacks, Jean Genet Los vendidos, Luis Valdez (costumes & sets) The Tempest, W. Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice, W. Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew, W. Shakespeare Othello, W. Shakespeare |
