CALENDAR

    This following calendar (or schedule) is intended to be as simple as  possible to use:

  •  the reading and writing assignments are DUE on the date they are listed.
  •  all of your required readings are listed and/or linked, either using a PDF file, html links, or the EBSCOHost  library link (for assigned articles).
  •  all handouts, such as syllabus, covenant, and other materials are linked here as PDF files.  
  •  DVDs and videos are on reserve in the TESC library.  You are welcome to screen DVDs and videos  on your own, but a useful alternative is to attend the optional Saturday morning screenings prior to  the  Saturday afternoon class.
  •  optional screenings begin at 9 or 10 am, depending on the length of film or video.
  •  performances we will attend in Seattle are listed.
  •  Wednesday classes begin at 6 pm.  Saturday classes begin at 1 pm.  All classes, including optional  screenings, meet in SEM II, A 1107.
  •  Please note that some readings have yet to be linked (as of 12/13/04)

week one

Wednesday, January 5

     STAGE AND SCREEN: WORD AND IMAGE

Saturday, January 8           

     READING AND MAKING PLAYS

  •             Handout:  Play analysis for directors and active readers
  •             Readings:  How I Learned to Drive
                       "Rough Theatre"   (PDF) from The Empty Space
                      EBSCOHost ("Driving Ms. Vogel" - American Theatre , Oct. '98)
  •             Writing:   Response paragraph to How I Learned to Drive
  •             Seminar:   "Rough Theatre" and How I Learned to Drive

week two

Wednesday, January 12

     TELEVISION AND FILM IN CONTEXT

  •            Handout:   Film conventions  (PDF)
  •            Workshop:   Staging plays (Vogel) & staging for the camera (Hare)
  •            Reading:   The Hours  (screenplay by David Hare)
                                   Murray:  "Stage and Screen: Some Basic Distinctions"

Saturday, January 15  
    CINEMATIC TIME AND SPACE

  •           **10 am:  optional screening time for The Hours
  •           Readings:   Excerpts from The Hours novel by Michael Cunningham
                                    Eisenstein: "Through Theatre to Cinema"
  •                                 Murray:  "Page and Screen: Some Basic Distinctions"
  •           Writing:   Response paragraph to The Hours screenplay and novel
  •           Seminar:  Literature and film 
  •           Screen:   The Hours

week three

Wednesday, January 19

     REALISM ON STAGE AND SCREEN (and glimpsing "reality" on TV)

  •           Handout:   Realism
  •           Workshop:  film clips from Kazan films and others
  •           Readings:   Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (play by August Wilson)
  •                    EBSCOHost ("Salvation in the City of Bones" - American Theatre , May/June '99)
  •           Writing:   Paragraph response to Ma Rainey's Black Bottom   

Saturday, January 22
     Ma Rainey field trip

  •              **1 pm:   optional screening time for Sunday in the Park with George
  •             NO AFTERNOON CLASS/SATURDAY NIGHT PERFORMANCE CANCELLED
  •             **CHANGE TO SUNDAY  5 pm:   leave Olympia to attend Ma Rainey at the Seattle Rep
                7 pm: Tickets will be distributed at Seattle Rep box office

week four

Wednesday, January 26
     THE CORNELL BOX (**boxes with presentations due)

     SONDHEIM AND THE AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATRE

  •           Readings:   Sunday in the Park with George (libretto from audio CD)
                                  Ardman: Introduction to Art Ain't Easy
  •           Writing:   response paragraph to Sondheim materials
  •           Seminar:  Ma Rainey in performance and Sondheim
  •           Screen:   Sunday in the Park with George

Saturday, January 29
     MUSIC AND OPERA

  •            **10 am:   optional screening time for class:  Dead Man Walking (Robbins film)
  •           Workshop on musical theatre with guest, Scott Warrender:
  •           Seminar:   Dead Man Walking:  film and opera
  •           Readings:   Excerpt from Dead Man Walking novel and
                                    Libretto excerpts from audio CD of opera
  •           Screen:    Dead Man Walking (Robbins film)

week five

Wednesday, February 2

     SHAKESPEARE ON THE PAGE AND ON THE STAGE

  •           Handout:   reading and performing Shakespeare
  •           Workshop/screening:  On playing/staging Shakespeare
  •           Readings:   Titus Andronicus
  •                         EBSCOHost ("What's that Puppet Doing in my Play?" American Theatre, Feb. '04)
  •           Writing:   Paragraph response to Titus Andronicus        

Saturday, February 5

     SHAKESPEARE ON FILM

  •           **9 am:   optional screening time for class:  Titus Andronicus (Taymor film)
  •           Readings:   Titus Andronicus 
  •                        EBSCOHost ("The Possession of Julie Taymor," American Theatre, Sept. '98)
                           Taymor interview
  •           Seminar:   Titus in three mediums
  •           Screen:  Titus Andronicus (Taymor film )

week six

Wednesday, February 9  &  Saturday, February 12

  •           STUDENT PROJECTS:   Considering television (readings and screenings TBA)

week seven

Wednesday, February 16

     NEW YORK AND REGIONAL THEATRE

  •           Workshop/screening: Bill Irwin and The Regard of Flight
  •           Readings:   Emperor Jones (play by Eugene O'Neill)
  •                                Murray:  "Eugene O'Neill, Expressionism and Film"

Saturday, February 19

     THE AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE

  •            **9 am:   optional screening time for Emperor Jones (Wooster Group)
  •           Reading:   Aaronson: American Avant-Garde Theatre
                                  The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill
  •           Seminar:   Emperor Jones
  •           Writing:   Paragraph response to  Emperor Jones
  •           Screen:   Emperor Jones (Wooster Group )

week eight

Wednesday, February 23

     MYTH AND FAIRY TALES ON STAGE

  •            Readings:   Secret in the Wings (by Mary Zimmerman)
  •                                 EBSCOHost ("The Zimmerman Touch," American Theatre, March 2002)
  •                                 Zimmerman Source Materials Link
                                    The Secret in the Wings
  •            Writing:   Paragraph response to Zimmerman readings
  •            Seminar:  The Secret in the Wings                         

Saturday, February 26
     Secret in the Wings field trip

  •            9 am:   optional screening time for Angels in America: Perestroika
  •            NO AFTERNOON CLASS
  •            5 pm:   Class leaves for field trip to Seattle Rep

week nine

Wednesday, March 2
      SECRETS AND ANGELS

  •           Readings:   Angels in America (by Tony Kushner)
  •                           EBSCOHost ("The Angels Decade," American Theatre, Dec. 2003)
  •           Writing:   Paragraph response to Angels materials
  •           Screen:    Angels in America:  Millennium Approaches
  •           Seminar:  Secret in the Wings performance and Angels           

Saturday, March 5

     ANGELS AND THE AMERICAN THEATRE LANDSCAPE

  •           **9 am:  optional screening time for Angels in America: Perestroika (Nichols film)
  •           Reading:   EBSCOHost ("Angels Takes Flight as a Film" American Theatre, Dec. 2003)
  •           Writing:  Draft of Reflective Essay due   (partners work in class)
  •           Screen:   Angels in America: Perestroika (Nichols film)

week ten

Wednesday, March 9

     CONSIDERING STAGE AND SCREEN: CREATIVE DISSONANCE?

  •            Program Review
  •            Readings:  EBSCOHost ( "A Critic's Summit," American Theatre, May/June '99)
  •                            Frank Rich:  14th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and P...
  •           **Reflective Essay Assignment due

Saturday, March 12

  •            POTLUCK LUNCH AND DISCUSSION
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