THTR1020 — Introduction to Theatre
THTR 1020 - Introduction to Theatre THTR 1020 - Introduction to Theatre Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 0 Course Description: This course introduces the student to the art and craft of theatre. An overview of many aspects of theatre including: design, acting, directing, backstage work, history and plays will be provided. Students also view certain theatrical works using cultural, social and political lenses. A study of the process by which the play moves from printed page to stage is included. This course serves students who are interested in pursuing performing arts, and those who would just like to know more about this unique field. Students may explore practical aspects of theatre by working backstage or in the theatre shops. MnTC Goals 6 Humanities/Fine Arts, 8 Global Perspective S. Race and Cultural Relations Contemporary to the Play Playwright’s Use of Props to Represent Characters Anti Realism Dada Expressionism Absurdism WWII and Absurdism, Minimalism and Metaphysics, Samuel Beckett, Beckett and the French Resistance Epic Theatre The Challenge to Aristotle, WWII and Epic Theatre, Bertolt Brecht, Society Can Change Anti Realistic Play (example: Angels in America) AIDS and Politics in the U.S. in the 1990s Gay Culture in the U.S. in the 1990s Religious Values Present in the Play Post Modernism Robert Wilson, Politics and the Funding of Avant-Guard Art Non Western Theatre Forms (At least three areas from this list) Japan, India, Africa, Peru, Bali, China, Mexico, Native North
Prerequisites: ENGL0950, RDNG0940, RDNG0950, ENGL0090, ESOL0051, ESOL0052