Students read a series of essays on contemporary culture and the arts. Area artists and crafts people lecture and demonstrate their products and abilities. The class actively participates in these demonstrations. There is a mid-term, a final plus two other quizzes. Students travel to the Albright Knox Museum and the Griffith Sculpture Park.
Course introduces students to plays and their production in a variety of countries.
It gives students structures by which to understand the construction of most plays and grounds the plays in their cultural and political era and area. The aspects held in common by theatrical forms are discussed as well as the cultural differences among particular plays. A chronological history of theatre as an institution from classical times to the early 19th century. A study of the forms of drama including realism and nonrealism, presentational and nonpresenta-tional, with special attention to production, design, and the special dramatic choices that plays present to directors, actors, and technicians. Drafting techniques, design, color, balance, rhythm, and harmony are studied for production design.