Assignment:
The course research project is a more formal research project on a specific theatre topic studied or prominent in the field. The project could be on one of the theatrical topics listed below...or elect to pick a topic of your own (with approval by the instructor).
• Early Theatre: The Greek City Dionysia Festival
• Japanese Kabuki Theatre
• Christopher Marlowe: The Other Elizabethan Playwright
• Lord Chamberlain's Men
• London's Historic Drury Lane Theatre
• Tennessee Williams and Society's Outcasts
• American Musicals by Stephen Sondheim
• Theatre in Prisons
• The Tony Awards
• Stage Musicals on Film
Areas that could be covered by this presentation include (but are not limited by) the following:
• a general history of the period, event, playwright, etc.
• staging and production conventions, if applicable
• plays and/or other related productions produced
• audience responses to or involvement in theatre