Open to transfer students accepted for Fall 2001 only. Must also register for TH123. In addition, a survey of Eastern classical theatre and drama with a particular emphasis on the Sanskrit theatre, the Chinese drama and the Peking Opera, as well as the classical theatre of Japan, including Kabuki, No and the puppet theatre. Combined with TH 312, this course fulfills the General Education Non-Western requirement. The major periods of world theatre and drama, neoclassicism, romanticism and modernism are studied with particular emphasis on 20th-century theatre and drama throughout the world including Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America.
Attention is given to the work of both women and men.
Theatrical conventions, innovations and techniques developed in the Western and Non-Western theatres are explored. Combined with TH 311, this course fulfills the General Education Non-Western requirement. This course is designed to give all students an opportunity to practice strategies of cold readings for both scenes and monologues as well as to give individual coaching in the selection and shaping of two memorized monologues. Students are introduced to the scope, purposes and history of theatre experiences for children and adolescents. Senior standing or permission of instructor.