THEATRE 100 Syllabus (COMM 100)

Section: A TR 9:30-10:45        Professor: Vaughn Schütz

Room: DB-202 Office: Theatre Studio in LP Basement

Book: Theatre: The Lively Art and Eight Plays for Theatre    Phone: 6375

Office Hours: MWF 11:00, TR, 11:00

 

Purpose: To introduce you to the various parts of theatre, including: performance, writing, design, historical theory, and technical theatre.

Assignments: There will be five tests. In a group, you will give a 20 minute presentation on the world in which the play we are discussing was written. In  group, you will write a 10 minute one-act play.  You will help with the technical aspects of our dinner theatre production of Inspecting Carol. You will write a review of that production.  The final in the class will be an acting scene, with a partner, which you will memorize and perform for class.

Grading: Five Tests 50
Presentation 20
One Act Play 30
Lab Work 30
Review 30
Final 40
Total 200

Other:  If you miss class when an assignment is due you will not receive points for that assignment. There will be no make-up work!!!  Do not cheat or you will flunk this class.

Schedule



August

8/21

T

Introduction to the class

8/23

Th

Introduction

8/28

T

Pages 191-205 The Greeks

8/30

Th

Presentation and Oedipus

September

9/4

T

Pages 205-214 The Romans

9/6

Th

Test 1

9/11

T

pages 216-222 Medieval Theatre

9/13

Th

Presentation

 The Plaie Called Corpus Christi (23-37)

9/18

T

Test 2

9/20

Th

pages 238-256

9/25

T

Presentation and Sonnets

9/27

Th

Much Ado About Nothing

October

10/2

T

Much Ado About Nothing

10/4

Th

Fall Break

10/9

T

Work on Set

10/11

Th

(Homecoming) Work on Set

10/16

T

(Mid Terms) Tech Work

10/18

Th

pages 261-267 Presentations

10/23

T

The Bourgeois Gentleman,

Theatre Goers Guide

10/25

Th

Test 3  Dessert Night

10/30

T

pages 303-310, Fool For Love

10/31

W

Dessert Night

November

11/1

Th

Test 4

11/6

T

Chapters 2, 3

11/8

Th

Chapters 5, 6

11/13

T

Chapters 7, 8 and Playwrighting

11/15

Th

Test 5

11/20

T

Write Play

11/22

Th

Thanksgiving

11/27

T

Read Plays

11/19

 

Acting One

December

12/4

 

Work Scenes

12/6

 

Perform Scenes

12/12

W

Final  1:30