English 107-01
Introduction to Drama
Autumn 2013
Cushman
Learning goals: To gain a broad experience of the theatre: reading plays, seeing plays
enjoying plays, thinking about plays, talking about plays, writing about plays.
To learn how to interpret/understand a play.
To appreciate plays in their cultural and historical contexts.
To gain insight into how a play is translated from page to performance.
To get into the habit of attending plays.
Texts: Jacobus, The Compact Bedford Introduction to Drama
Albee, The Zoo Story (scan)
Hall, The Mountaintop (Methuen)
Knott, Wait Until Dark (Knott)
August 20 Introductory
22 Albee, The Zoo Story
August 27 Strindberg, Miss Julie
29 Miss Julie
September 3 Miller, Death of a Salesman
5 Salesman
10 Salesman
12 Salesman
17 Knott, Wait Until Dark
19 Wait Until Dark
24 Exam #1
26 O’Neill, Desire Under the Elms
October 1 Desire Under the Elms
3 Williams, Cat on a Tin Roof
8 Cat
10 Cat
15 Fall Break
17 Exam #2
22 Fugard, “MASTER HAROLD” . . . and the boys
24 “MASTER HAROLD”
29 Wilson, Fences
31 Fences
November 5 Hall, The Mountaintop
7 Mountaintop
12 Shanley, Doubt: A Parable
14 Doubt
19 Churchill, Cloud Nine
21 Cloud Nine
26 Exam #3
28 Thanksgiving
Calculation of Final Grade:
Exam #1 30%
Exam #2 30%
Exam #3 30%
Quizzes
10%
Attendance: It is essential that you be present and that you come to class prepared to
talk about the plays.
Please do not leave the classroom after the beginning of class.
No texting or e-mail reading (!).
You are allowed four unexcused cuts.
Cushman office hours: HHRA 3111
Thursday 2-4
334-5660
keith_cushman@uncg.edu
Productions to be seen as a required part of the course:
Knott, Wait Until Dark
Hall, The Mountaintop
Triad Stage 1-22 September (dark on Mondays)
Triad Stage 20 October -10 November
(dark on Mondays)
triadstage.org Telephone 272-0160
[You are required to turn in your ticket stubs to me.]