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Tag Archives: theatre
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
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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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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Mime Field
The internet anger machine has finally discovered the San Francisco Mime Troupe (SFMT), a political theatre group that has been active since 1959. Over the July 1 weekend, the Troupe premiered their new play, Walls, about an unlikely … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Pop Culture, Theatre
Tagged Julius Caesar, San Francisco Mime Troupe, SFMT, theatre, Third World Women's Alliance, TWWA
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Fences…Meh?
This is going to sound awfully petty, or snobbish, but I finally got around to watching Fences, the filmed adaptation of the August Wilson play from 2016. Directed by and starring Denzel Washington, it essentially adapts the 2010 Broadway revival in … Continue reading
Posted in African American Lit, Pop Culture, Theatre
Tagged August Wilson, Denzel Washington, Fences, Film, Mykelti Williamson, theatre, Viola Davis
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Book Orders, How Do They Work?
It’s that time of the semester–time to submit my textbook orders for the impossibly far-seeming Fall semester 2017. The pressure to get them in on time is pretty strong, since each department gets a stipend from the book store that … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Teaching, Theatre
Tagged One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, syllabus, teaching, textbooks, the simpsons, theatre
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Trumptuffe
I was teaching the 17th century French play Tartuffe, by Molière, last week to students in my introduction to drama class. We got into a really interesting discussion about hypocrisy and why phony human beings irritate us so much. Why is … Continue reading
It’s not “Street Theatre” if you freak out the oppressed
As a scholar of political theatre, I would love nothing more than to see a resurgence of activist drama, agitprop theatre, and street theatre in these times. Because proposals floated by the Trump administration have not been reassuring to artists, scholars, or … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Theatre
Tagged agitprop, Donald Trump, Fascism, Free Southern Theatre, KKK, street theatre, theatre
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The Renaissance of Angels in America
I regularly teach the American Literature Survey in my department–all three parts of it. My academic expertise technically only covers the last two courses, which at our institution cover 1865-1914 and 1914-present, respectively. (But I actually love teaching the first … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching, Theatre
Tagged Angels in America, Ozone, performance, popular culture, teaching, theatre, Tony Kushner
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