Spring Readings: Embarrassment, Eroticism, Memory, Resistance, Stereotype, Terror, Violence

In case you have any difficulty with your emails, here are links to each of spring readings.  As mentioned in class, please read the word/s you signed up for in class before our next class: Embarrassment, Eroticism, Memory, Resistance, Stereotype, Terror, Violence

Notes Before Spring Break

Thanks again to Alice and company for allowing us to come and visit the work in the Playwrights Lab!

As stated in class today, based upon the word/s that you selected (memory, violence, eroticism, terror, stereotype, embarrassment, resistance), we will email you a PDF of a reading.  Have this read by our next class and be ready to discuss (no written response is assigned).

Also, since we have passed the halfway mark on the semester, we will be email you each status reports of where you stand with work and attendance.

Writing Assignment (Due 3/17)

Write a perfect sentence.

After you do that, proceed to http://theatercalarts.blogspot.com/p/step-2.html

Guest Artists: The Poor Dog Group (3/3)

 

Poor Dog Group is a Los Angeles based collective of like-minded performance and media artists committed to nurturing a distinctive aesthetic through adventurous collaboration. Our mission is to develop original theatrical expression through the creation of new work and radical reexaminations of existing texts; to redefine, educate and expand our own perceptions of performance and theatrical form; to have an accessibility for a new audience; to use experimental methods of the body, text and technology; to craft new American theater; and to develop the cultivation of a limitless and periodic space.

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