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3.00 Credits
Same as E Comp 224
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3.00 Credits
Required for the drama major. This course takes a performance-centered view of ancient, medieval, and early Renaissance theater, as we examine theatrical performance in various historical and cultural contexts. We carefully study dramatic texts written by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plautus, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, and we also examine the collaborative theaters of the medieval period (e.g., the Corpus Christi play) and the Italian Renaissance (the commedia dell'arte). With a particular emphasis on ancient Greek theatrical performance, we also study the roles of music, dance, costumes, masks, props, space, theater architecture, the actor-audience relationship, and other phenomena. Whereas no previous acting or technical theatrical experience is required to take the course, we use theatrical performance and production to help us better understand these older, but still quite vital, forms of theater. Particular emphasis is given to acting and moving with masks (central to both ancient Greek theater and the commedia dell'arte). In addition to several written assignments, small groups are assigned the task of researching, reconstructing, and performing a lost ancient Greek play based on surviving fragments. This course should be taken before Theater Culture Studies II.
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3.00 Credits
The second course in an interdisciplinary, three-semester sequence that examines Western and non-Western dramatic literature and theater history from its known origins to the present. Students engage plays, treatises, architecture, and other primary sources along with select secondary literature on this important period in the formation of theatrical modernism. Course covers theaters of the Baroque, the Spanish Golden Age, the French neoclassical period, the English restoration, 18th-century middle-class drama, the German Romantic period, and Edo Japan.
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3.00 Credits
Explores a variety of special interest topics in theater not included in the Theater Culture Studies sequence. Consult the Course Listings.
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3.00 Credits
War, in its accumulated horrors and victory marches, its drumbeats, and screams of the innocent, is something common to all civilizations past and present. However gruesome and senseless war itself may be, the study of artistic responses to war reveals much about the past and about ourselves. This freshman seminar examines artistic responses to war from ancient Greece (Euripides, Aristophanes) through the Vietnam conflict of the 1960s, right up to contemporary theatrical treatments of the present-day war in Iraq. As part of our examination of war onstage, we take special note of the Performing Arts Department's production of Brecht's Mother Courage, one of the 20th century's greatest anti-war plays. Because one of our ongoing themes is the relationship between art and propaganda, we broaden our discourse to include the other arts: film, journalism, and painting, including poster art and cartoons as well as masterpieces such as Picasso's "Guernica."
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3.00 Credits
What does putting on a play have to do with having a wedding? What's the difference between St. Louis sports fans and primates and the St. Louis Zoo? What does the "Mr. WashU" pageant say about the Washington University community? How is a dance concert like a Native American Pow Wow? In this course we explore the vocabulary and concepts of performance studies to address these and other questions. We bring the vital lens of performance to focus on an array of cultural activities through readings, field trips, and activities. Three short essays, a mid-term, and a take-home final are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an opportunity to investigate the nature of the theater by way of performance. Students study a variety of theatrical texts in the most direct and experiential way, by acting in them. The course is designed for those who want to understand the interpretive work of the actor. Students are introduced to the practical work of building a character for the stage, and they also gain an understanding of how dramatic texts work both on the page and on the stage. Textual analysis, movement work, and vocal production skills are developed using monologues, scene work, and exercises. These skills also should provide significant benefits outside the confines of the class itself, in the professional and personal lives of the students taking this class.
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3.00 Credits
The focus of this course is on the history, theory, and practice of performance art and performance theater. The class engages in exercises that generate text, movement, sound, and performance scores. Students create original performances that incorporate contemporary critical concepts. Performance production is supplemented by readings and videos that introduce the history and theory of experimental performance and work by specific performance artists.
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1.00 Credits
Same as Dance 257
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Students may receive up to 3 units of credit for an approved internship with an organization where the primary objective is to obtain professional experience outside the classroom. Students must file a Learning Agreement with the Career Center, a faculty sponsor, and the site supervisor. This must be approved by all three constituencies before proceeding. A final written project is agreed upon between the student and faculty sponsor before work begins, and is evaluated by the faculty sponsor at the end of the internship.
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