Performance Works: Telling Stories

In selecting the readings for fall and winter quarter, your faculty have attempted to find some of the best and most compelling stories that are available either online, used, or through handouts.

FALL QUARTER

selected handouts as assigned, and...
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
Somatics (Thomas Hanna)
The Silent Language (Edward T. Hall)
Listening to Earth (Christopher Hallowell) - both articles titled "The Land Ethic"
Where I’m Calling From (Raymond Carver) - "Cathedral"
The Power of Myth (Joseph Campbell)
Billy Budd, Sailor (Herman Melville)
Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (Sophocles) - "Oedipus the King"

And between fall and winter quarters, we'd like you to read:

Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (Sophocles) - "Antigone"
The Dead (James Joyce)

We will be using some of these in winter quarter too, so please hang onto your books.

WINTER QUARTER

selected handouts as assigned, and... [not in order]
Macbeth (William Shakespeare)
Somatics (Thomas Hanna)
The Silent Language (Edward T. Hall)
The Highest Tide (Jim Lynch)
Where I’m Calling From (Raymond Carver) - TBA
Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (Sophocles) - "Antigone"