DRAMA 9: Undergraduate Production Colloquium
For students researching, directing, and producing pieces for the Drama department or other student theater groups on campus. Issues related to theater venues, costs, design, construction, stage management, directing, and producing. Student and faculty presentations on production issues and the progress of their work. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 1-3
Instructors:
Ramsaur, M. (PI)
DRAMA 11N: Dramatic Tensions: Theater and the Marketplace
Preference to freshmen. Tension between artistic and commercial forces in modern theater; the conflicted state of the art form. Sources include major and emerging contemporary figures in commercial, fringe, and nonprofit theater in the U.S. and UK. Visits with writers, directors, and dramaturges.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Freed, A. (PI)
DRAMA 11SC: Learning Theater: From Audience to Critic at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Ten days and six plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. The details of the plays, their interpretation, production, and acting, and their value as entertainment and challenge.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Paulson, L. (PI)
;
Rayner, A. (PI)
DRAMA 12N: Antigone: From Ancient Democracy to Contemporary Dissent (CLASSGEN 6N)
Preference to freshmen. Tensions inherent in the democracy of ancient Athens; how the character of Antigone emerges in later drama, film, and political thought as a figure of resistance against illegitimate authority; and her relevance to contemporary struggles for women's and workers' rights and national liberation. Readings and screenings include versions of
Antigone by Sophocles, Anouilh, Brecht, Fugard/Kani/Ntshona, Paulin, Glowacki, Gurney, and von Trotta.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-ER
Instructors:
Rehm, R. (PI)
DRAMA 12SC: Playwriting Lab: The Art of Dramatic Writing
Workshop. Each student develops an original script which is presented in theater by the other students. How to develop, expand, and condition the creative mind. Toipcs including dramatic action, text and subtext, characterization, language, and style. Students function as a theatrical collective where each has the opportunity to participate in reading and serving the vision of each student-author.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Freed, A. (PI)
DRAMA 14N: Shakespeare from Stage to Screen
Preference to freshmen. The texts, stage practices, and filmic transformations for Shakespearean plays, including
Henry V, Hamlet, Midsummer Night's Dream, and
Macbeth. Close readings of texts and films; the relationship of film technologies to the texts in the production of political and social space; and the cultural assumptions carried by images and characters.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Rayner, A. (PI)
DRAMA 16N: Beauty or the Beast? Kitsch and Contemporary Culture
Preference to freshmen. What kind of esthetic experience does kitsch describe? Is it a matter of taste? Kitsch through disciplines such as visual arts, theater, literature, music, advertising, fashion, celebrity culture, and food.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Jakovljevic, B. (PI)
DRAMA 17N: Salt of the Earth: The Docudrama in America
Preference to freshmen. Docudrama as a form of dramatic writing which provides a social critique of current or historical events through creative documentation and dramatization. Sources include Chicana/o and Latina/o texts, Brecht, Teatro Campesino, and Culture Clash. Students produce a short docudrama.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
Instructors:
Moraga, C. (PI)
DRAMA 18N: Performing Religion and Secularity in the Modern World
Preference to freshmen. Why the increasingly globalized world is confronted with the concurrent rise in religious violence and extremism. The production of religion and secularity in the performative public sphere through a consideration of theater, films, religious processions, and festivals. How the axes of gender, class, and nation complicate religious identities in the modern world.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Menon, J. (PI)
DRAMA 20: Acting for Non-Majors
Creative play and ensemble work. Skills including group improvisation to partner work. Freeing the natural voice and physical relaxation. Emphasis is on imaginative and creative impulses. Movement improvisation, listening exercises, and theater games. How to take risks that are the essence of free and powerful performance.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, way_ce
Instructors:
Amarotico, K. (PI)
;
bihr, j. (PI)
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