Performance of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, photo by Stella Adler, CC BY 2.0
Library Research Guide for THEA 362: Theatre History & Dramatic Literature
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Here is the description of the assignment:
First read Michael Mark Chemers' instructions for writing a production history. Then, choose a play from the list below.
For this assignment you will turn in a production history like the one outlined by Chemers for a specific, significant production of the play you chose. You will also submit a 1pg. summary of the play's critical reception that summarizes what was unique and important about this particular production and correctly cites in MLA format a variety of articles responding to the play. You will also turn in a 2 pg. dramaturg's note that would accompany the program of a contemporary performance of this play. Your dramaturg's note should answer the question: "Why This Play Now?" as articulated by Chemers in the attachment.
You may choose your play from the following list:
- The Dutchman by Amiri Baraka
- Hot N' Throbbing by Paula Vogel
- Pentecost by David Edgar
- Translations by Brian Friel
- Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
- The Clown Show by Jean Genet
- RUR by Karel Čapek
- The Color of Justice by Richard Norton Taylor
- Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
- For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
- The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill
- Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
- Hamletmachine by Heiner Müller
- Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights by Gertrude Stein