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Author Archives: Sharyn
What Does Conservative Theatre Look Like?
I am teaching an upper level elective, American Drama, this semester. My students are about to embark on their final projects, which are “play recovery” projects. The students had to find a lesser-known play they thought could be placed into … Continue reading
The Theft of Marsha P. Johnson
Over the past few weeks, it has come to light that a new documentary about the legendary transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson was made in a highly unethical fashion. The still-developing story about The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson is a sad … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Pop Culture
Tagged documentary, Marsha P. Johnson, Reina Gosset, transgender
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Angels in America at the Actors Theatre
This past weekend, I was fortunate enough to see Part 2, “Perestroika,” of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. As I have mentioned several times in this blog, I teach Angels regularly as part of my 20th century … Continue reading
Posted in Pop Culture, Teaching, Theatre
Tagged Actors Theatre, Angels in America, Roy Cohn, theatre, Tony Kushner
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Pageants Used to be Theatrical
Welcome Back! If you were able to take Labor Day off, I hope you relaxed and had a great day. If you weren’t able to take the day off, I hope you got paid extra for working on this day … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Teaching, Theatre
Tagged Pageants, Paterson Strike Pageant, Star of Ethiopia, teaching, W.E.B. Du Bois
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Prison & Performance
Welcome to the start of the brand new 2017-18 academic year! I am feeling sightly off-kilter still, since the ECLIPSE took up quite a bit of the first day of our semester, but I was happy our students got a … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, scholarship, Theatre, Uncategorized
Tagged applied theatre, Ear Hustle, podcast, prison, theatre
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Learning is More Important Than Teaching
Last week, I got to attend a teaching and learning conference and surprisingly, the keynote was wonderful. I say this because I have honestly been to so many conferences over the years for which the keynote was decidedly a snooze. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Profession, Teaching
Tagged Active Learning, Cognitive Load, Lecturing, teaching, Todd Zakrajsek
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Teaching A Streetcar Named Desire
I’m happy to share this post I wrote for the Theater Historiography website about multimodal approaches to teaching Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. I like to use the play text combined wth film, animation, and visual art sources in the classroom. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Teaching, Theatre
Tagged A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams, the simpsons, Theater Historiography
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Alt, Schmalt
You may have heard about the new show concept announced from the creative team behind the HBO hit Game of Thrones. The new show, to be produced for HBO, is called Confederate and is set in a “grisly dystopian future” in which the … Continue reading
Posted in African American Lit, Pop Culture
Tagged African American, alt-history, Civil War, Colson Whitehead, Confederate, Television
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Are You Ready for Some Rhetorical Analysis??
American football is inescapable. And though it is the off season, I’ve been thinking about football and rhetoric quite a bit. This was brought on by watching the second season of Amazon Studios’ documentary-series, All or Nothing, which follows an NFL … Continue reading
Posted in Pop Culture, Sports, Theatre
Tagged All or Nothing, Arizona Cardinals, distraction, Football, LA Rams, Michael Sam, momentum, NFL, rhetoric
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Checking Out THE STREET
I’ve been teaching Richard Wright’s Native Son for years in my American Literature since 1914 course. (See related posts under the tag for “Native Son”) But because the book has so many problematic components–rape, murder, violence against women, a really lagging … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, African American Lit, Feminism, Teaching
Tagged Ann Petry, literature, Native Son, Naturalism, Richard Wright, syllabus, The Street
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