TDEU 2010-Acting I (for non-majors) (4 credits) Introductory acting technique for non-Theatre Majors. Emphasis on developing and freeing the voice, body, imagination, and emotions. Activities of the course include vocal and body warm-ups, theatre games and exercises, TDLU 2600-Playwriting I: Storytelling and Character (4 credits) Open to non-majors. See description in Playwriting section. TDLU 2610-Playwriting II: Structure and Language (4 credits) Open to non-majors. See description in Playwriting section. Prerequisite: TDLU 2600. TDLU 2000-Theatre History I: The Greeks (4 credits) The course explores the major developments in the ancient Greek theatre, focusing on the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. To enrich our context we will read primary Greek texts like The Iliad and The Odyssey, as well as contemporary responses to the Greeks from writers such as Wole Soyinka, Adrienne Kennedy, and Derek Walcott. The course is open to non-majors. TDLU 2100-Theatre History II: The Medieval to the Restoration (4 credits) The course explores the major developments in Theatre from 1588 to 1720. We use major works as a focus including the plays of Hrotsvitha, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster, Ford, Calderón de la Barca, Chikamatsu, Molière, Racine, Congreve, and Centlivre. We explore their context--when, where, and why they were written--the lives of the playwrights, and the culture and the politics of their society. The course is open to non-majors. Prerequisite: TDLU 2000. TDLU 2200-Theatre History III: The "Moderns" to the Present (4 credits) The course explores the major developments in Theatre from 1879 to the present using major plays of Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Wedekind, Stein, Brecht, O'Neill, Artaud, Genet, Kennedy, Beckett, Soyinka, Mishima, Churchill, and the movements of performance art and butoh. We explore their context--when, where, and why they were written--the lives of the playwrights, and the culture and the politics of their society. The course is open to non-majors. Prerequisite: TDLU 2200. TDLU 2500-Asian Theatre (4 credits) The course will cover major movements in Asian theatre including Japanese Kabuki and Noh Theatre, Balinese dance drama, shadow puppetry, Korean Shaman dancing, and Indian Kathakali dance theatre. TDLU 2510-Theatre as Social Change (4 credits) A lecture-demonstration-performance class which will provide an overview of Theatre as a tool to promote personal, social, and political change. Classroom lectures, video screenings, and discussions will focus on the work of a diversity of playwrights, individual artists, and theatre companies. Students will have the opportunity to create and develop their own performance pieces. TDLU 2520-Multicultural Theatre: Diverse Visions and Voices (4 credits) Students will read and explore contemporary theatrical work drawn from the Asian American, African American, Native American, Latino/Hispanic American, feminist, and gay experience. This course will include an investigation of the social, political, and aesthetic perspectives of the various cultures represented with an eye toward discovering their vision of contemporary life. The study of a brief history of each culture will provide a point of reference for beginning to understand the dynamics of each culture as it has functioned within the overall fabric of American life. TDLU 2540-The Irish Theatre (4 credits) The course explores the Irish Theatre in the 20th century using major plays as a focus. We trace its origins in the Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin at the turn of the century, its growth in parallel with the rising nationalist movement, and its impact in London, Paris, and New York. The playwrights will range from Yeats, O'Casey, and Lady Gregory to Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, and the new writers of the present moment. The course is part of the Irish Studies Institute and is open to non-majors. TDLU 2530-Theatre and Visual Arts (4 credits) Seeing plays Off and Off-Off Broadway and visiting museums and galleries to discern the relation between the two art forms. TDLU 2900-Theatre Management (4 credits) An introduction to the managerial aspects of American theatre. Topics include: history of theatrical production and management in America, defining and understanding the differences between commercial and nonprofit theatre, basic management functions, types of theatre managers, forming a production company, understanding the actors' unions and contracts, organizing a nonprofit theatre company, artistic policy choices, staffing, casting, theatrical tours, the role of the producer and presenter, budget planning, box office, fundraising, marketing and audience development, the publicity campaign, and advertising. The class is comprised of lecture, discussion, and guest speakers from the New York City Theatre community. (Every other semester) TDLU 4050-Projects: Theatre Management (2 credits) Advanced work in theatre management and publicity for departmental or professional productions, under faculty supervision. Prerequisite: consent of faculty advisor. (Every semester)   TDLU 1100-Invitation to Theatre (3 credits) An introduction to major plays, artists, and forms of theatre in various periods, and an investigation into the creative process of the Theatre today. Videotapes of outstanding productions of plays past and present. Guest lecturers and discussions with directors and designers when possible. Attendance at selected professional productions at reduced rates. Cannot be used by Theatre Majors to fulfill art requirement.
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