Productions and specialty classes provide experience and diversified skills, but the cornerstone of a UH theater degree is a four-semester undergraduate course called World Theatre Sequence. It's a unique course because it's team-taught by specialists in both Western and Asian theater. Mainland universities don't offer that cross-cultural comparison. Such dualism, in one of its many guises, is echoed throughout the Faust epic. Perhaps, for the audience on opening night, it will be the key to understanding and enjoying this literary masterpiece.
Students are the heart and soul of everything.
We work the curriculum with what's happening on stage because theater has to be practical. The son of a lawyer, Goethe practiced law and held a number of government positions in the court of Duke Karl August of Weimar, including war commissioner, director of roads and services, manager of financial affairs, general supervisor for arts and sciences and director of the court theaters. He delved into the occult, philosophy, astrology, alchemy and religious mysticism as well as chemistry, anatomy, mineralogy and geology. His interest in osteology led to his discovery of the human intermaxillary bone. During a two-year sabbatical to Italy, he immersed himself in the art, architecture and literature of ancient Greece and Rome.