write activity from everyday life, a special occasion, or a cultural experience. Describe its relationship to theater based on source
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Topic :
An activity from everyday life, a special occasion, or a cultural experience. Describe its relation-ship to theater, according to criteria established in lecture and/or the assigned sources for Les-sons 1-5. Be sure that your analysis considers the role of the participant(s) and the audience member(s) in the event. How does your selection accommodate and how does it reject ideas about theater and performance that we have considered in class?
Sources
Lecture 1
Theater: The Lively Art (2012), Chapters 2-3, Wilson & Goldfarb
Course Reader, pp. 1-50
lecture 2
“A Play on YouTube?” Los Angeles Times (June 10, 2013), Ng;
“EF’s Visit to a Small Planet: Some Questions to Ask A Play,” Theatre (Summer 2004), Fuchs
Course Reader, pp. 51-57
lecture 3
Theatre: The Lively Art (2012), Chapter 5, Wilson & Goldfarb;
“Direction and Acting,” Acting: A Handbook of the Stanislavski Method (1995), Stanislavski
Course Reader, pp. 58-85
lecture 4
A Doll House (1879), Henrik Ibsen, translation by Rolf Fjelde
Course Reader, pp. 86-119
lecture 5
Theatre: The Lively Art (2012), Chapter 6, Wilson & Goldfarb;
“Fun-House Proportions Turn Dominance Upside Down,” New York Times, November 24, 2003, Jefferson;
“Mabou Mines Dollhouse,” Theatre Journal, October 2004, Fuchs
Course Reader, pp. 120-143