THETR 266:
Class Schedule, S21
1/14 T
In Class:
Introductions and schedules, grading, syllabus
Home:
Read Brockett: chapters one, two, and three
1/16 TH
In Class:
Romanticism into Realism
How to read a play
Home:
Read The Count of Monte Cristo (Hand-out)
Read Brockett: chapter six
1/21 T Last Day to add/Register for Spring Classes
In Class:
Monte Cristo Quiz
Discuss Theme, Symbol, Metaphor and Plot
Discuss Monte Cristo
Home:
Brockett: chapter seven
1/23 TH
Henrik Ibsen, Realism, and The Dawning of the Twentieth Century
In Class:
Video of A Doll's House
Home:
Read A Doll's House
A Doll's House Homework Questions
Read Brustein: chapter one
1/28 T
Due:
A Doll's House Homework Questions
In Class:
Discuss A Doll's House
Home:
Read Brustein: chapter two
1/30 TH
August Strindberg
Home:
Read The Father
The Father Homework Questions
2/4 T Last Day to Drop without a grade of "W"
Due:
The Father Homework Questions
In Class:
Discuss The Father
Home:
Ibsen and Strindberg video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiiaed3puhY
2/6 TH
Anton Chekhov
In Class:
Video of The Seagull
Home:
Read The Seagull
The Seagull Homework Questions
Chekhov video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMzuxuA1POU
2/11 T
Surrealism and Symbolism
Due:
The Seagull Homework Questions
In Class:
Discuss The Seagull
Home:
Read Brustein: chapter four
Surrealism and Symbolism video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx0Z6y2HmlM
2/13 TH
George Bernard Shaw
In Class:
Video of Arms and the Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHV9kTjO8mQ
Home:
Read Arms and the Man
Read Brustein: chapter five
2/18 T Suffolk Monday: No School
2/20 TH
Eugene O'Neill
Due
In Class:
Discuss Arms and the Man
Video of Anna Christie
Discuss Final Papers
Home:
Read Anna Christie
Arms and the Man and Anna Christie Homework Questions
2/25 T
Due: Arms and the Man and Anna Christie Homework Questions
In Class:
Discuss Anna Christie
Home:
Read Brustein: chapter eight
2/27 TH
Expressionism
Sophie Treadwell
In Class:
Watch Metropolis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQN624DiMFs
Watch :The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahezf-gk8jQ
Home:
Read Machinal
Review Brocket: Chapter Seven
Machinal Homework Questions
Watch Video of Roundabout's Machinal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkOnD27BYoU
Expressionist Theatre Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B99H6Ygnzgw
3/3 T
Due: Machinal Homework Questions
In Class:
Discuss Machinal
Talk about Mid-Term and Final Paper Proposal
Home:
Review for Mid-Term
3/5 TH
In Class: MID-TERM EXAM
Home: Begin work on final paper proposal
Brustein: chapter seven
S P R I N G B R E A K (3/9 - 3/17)
Online Course Begins:
3/19 TH
Post-war theatre, literature, and art.
Home:
Review second part of Brocket Chapter 7 American Theatre and Drama between the Wars
Read Six Characters in Search of an Author
Answer Six Characters in Search of an Author Homework Questions
Watch Videos:
This is another "Crash Course Theatre" video about The Group Theatre and the Federal Theatre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGLZDFHnnwk
This video is about The Group Theatre in America: Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre (1.5 hours)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd308_SiF1c
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello Biography
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc30.html
Watch Videos:
This is a short video about Prandello's philosophy and writing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okXCJMkbvlM
. . . And another, quite well produced, that references Comedia Dell' Arte.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZJ2mF_KyhY
This is from the "version" that I would have shown you in class. Very 1970's!
Video of Six Characters in Search of an Author
This is a 1936 Italian version of the movie and closer to what Pirandello might have been thinking for style. Follow along with your text:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEhP2a8I4Ok&list=PLbrkWyBJJRX2bsu7i6549D3PCUbfSZc1M
This is just cool (you don't even need to be a trekkie to get it) and shows the extent of Piandello's influence on contemporary thought and fiction.
Moriarty on the Holodeck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzi7qBk6ll8
Begin thinking about and exploring options for your final paper:
Begin work on Final Paper Proposal
3/24 T
Due:
Six Characters in Search of an Author Homework Questions
Email me your homework, in Word format, to rchambers@suffolk.edu. The subject line of the email should read:
"THETR266 Homework: Title of play/student name/student ID#"
Home:
Read Brustein: chapter six. Work on Final Paper proposals
3/26 TH
Berthold Brecht and Antonin Artaud
Berthold Brecht Biography
https://www.theatredatabase.com/20th_century/bertolt_brecht_001.html
Watch Videos:
This is a Crash Course Theatre video about Artaud (He loved Strinberg, BTW)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK_vZuLYHcw
This is a Crash Course Theatre video about Brecht:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7fqMPDcKXM
This is a National Theatre video about Brecht:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-828KqtTkA
A Brief Introduction to Marxism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0GFSUu5UzA
Video about Verfremdungseffekt ot the Alienation Effect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOZtW3UJlNs
This is a video by Professor Raymond Williams introducing the following clips from The Caucasian Chalk Circle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDujizxwa1E
These are scenes from a British Tevevison production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle that I would have shown in class.
Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-2JU5ndF_Y
Trial Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6QlgwXiRZk
Home:
Read The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Caucasian Chalk Circle Homework Questions
Email me your homework, in Word format, to rchambers@suffolk.edu. The subject line of the email should read:
"THETR266 Homework: Title of play/student name/student ID#"
3/31 T
Due:
The Caucasian Chalk Circle Homework Questions
Home:
Work on Final Paper proposals
4/2 TH
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett Biography:
https://samuelbeckettsociety.org/biography/
Watch Videos:
Theatre of the Absurd
This is "Crash Course Theatre" video about Theatre of the Absurd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ7w2I83ba4
Video of Act Without Words I from the series of videos "Becket on Film". For me, this is "Beckett in a nutshell—his view of the human condition reduced to it's most essential and elemental.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb_eMMqUjTA
Buster Keaton: The Hat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q92M7eC-AT8
Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ffMoTfGCfY
Article about Beckett, Buster Keaton, and Beckett's film Film (and the documentary about Film)
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/making-film-behind-the-scenes-with-samuel-beckett/
Clip of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in the Broadway production of Waiting for Godot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUXtzkLTABI
Video of Waiting for Godot from the series of videos "Becket on Film". This is the one I would have shown in class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5zoztwfs40
Home:
Read Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot Homework Questions
4/7 T
Due: Waiting for Godot Homework Questions
Home:
Finish Final Paper Proposals
4/9 TH
Due:
FINAL PAPER PROPOSALS DUE. ALL REVIEW AND ANY and ALL MAKE UP WORK DUE! (Hard Deadline)
Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter Biography:
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc28.html
Watch Videos:
As much as I despise Charlie Rose, this is a useful look into Pinter's outlook and personality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVchqMXobVQ
This is Harold Pinter's Nobel Speech, which he recorded because he was too Ill to attend the ceremony. It is very intellectual and very political and very "Pinter".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH96tuRA3L0
Pinter performed Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. This video includes excerpts and interviews. Fascinating to hear Pinter talking about Beckett.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjM072LCTvo
This is a video of Pinter's 1957 one-act play The Dumbwaiter. It has all of the components of a typical Pinter Play from very early in his career.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYV0sbzEIJQ
This is The Birthday Party video I would have shown you in class from British TV in 1968. Great Cast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1zEi1MWZI0&list=PLj8RtnARqzryCle0eebcK7jHACb8gv4tk
Home:
Read The Birthday Party
The Birthday Party Homework Questions
Email me your homework, in Word format, to rchambers@suffolk.edu. The subject line of the email should read:
"THETR266 Homework: Title of play/student name/student ID#"
4/14 T
Due: The Birthday Party Homework Questions
Class:
Discuss Birthday Party Questions
Discuss Proposals
Link to Stephanie Coyle's Showcase Zoom Production of THE LOVER: https://suensemble.suffolk.edu/hapi/v1/contents/permalinks/i7H8YrSo/view
Home:
Finish Final Paper Proposals
4/16 TH
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard Biography:
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc46.html
Watch Videos:
Again, in spite of Charlie Rose, Stoppard is fascinating here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoSnabj-Cc4
Another clip from Theatre Talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr92r-PIrXk
Gary Oldman on Rosencrantz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHEmsmoM-_c
Dead in a Box clip of R&G with Benedict Cumberbach and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t5UTLkfoUs
Video of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead directed by Tom Stoppard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YHHHEg3ioc
Home:
Read Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Homework Questions
Email me your homework, in Word format, to rchambers@suffolk.edu. The subject line of the email should read:
"THETR266 Homework: Title of play/student name/student ID#"
4/21 T
Due:
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Homework Questions
Home:
Work on Final Paper
4/23 TH
Home:
Work on Final Paper
FINAL PAPERS DUE BY Final Exam TIME: Wednesday, April 29, 02:00PM
Important Dates:
January 13, 2020 Spring Classes Begin
January 20, 2020 Martin Luther King Day Holiday- University Closed
January 21, 2020 Last Day to Add/Register for 20/SP (including waitlists)
February 4, 2020 Last Day to Drop a Spring 2020 Course Without a Grade of "W"
February 6-9, 2020 Spring Showcase Run
February 17, 2020 Presidents Day Holiday- University Closed
February 18, 2020 Suffolk Monday- Tuesday Classes Cancelled
March 9th to March 13, 2020 Spring Break- All Classes Cancelled
March 18, 2020 Last Day to Drop a Spring 2020 Class Without a Grade of "F"
April 2-5, 2020 Violet Run
April 16-18 2020 Seminar Run
April 20, 2020 Patriot's Day Holiday- University Closed
April 21, 2020 Last Day of Tuesday Evening Classes
April 27, 2020 Last Day of Spring Classes (Except for Tuesday evening classes)
April 28, 2020 Reading Day for Day Classes
April 28, 2020 Tuesday Evening Final Exams
April 29 to May 5, 2020 Final Exams and Art & Design Portfolio Week
May 7, 2020 Grades Due to Registrar by 2:00PM