Departmental Reading and Viewing Assignments

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1 Departmental Reading and Viewing Assignments During the semester, the student is required to complete writing assignments for the reading and viewing requirement. Play readings and journal articles will be handed in on assigned days during the semester while play viewings and the film viewing are due on the assigned day at the end of the semester. Plays read should be limited to the list provided and works read for class are not eligible. This year, the category of Journal Article has been added to the assignment. The Department subscribes to various trade and industry publications focusing on the entertainment business. The students are now required to read and write a short summary of articles from these journals due on assigned days during the semester. This is a required assignment each semester. Failure to complete the assignment by the deadlines will result in a loss of up to 10 points on your semester grade. Assignments read for your Literature classes may not be used. Industry and Trade Journal Article Assignments Students must now read and write a clear summary of journal articles from trade and industry publications such as American Theatre, Creative Design, Backstage, or Lighting and Sound. Infotrac, available through the Alabama Virtual Library, provides access to many more journals and newspaper articles by using the search term theatre. Grades 9-12 should read three articles while grades 7 and 8 should read two. The summaries of these articles should be turned in on the assigned day during the semester. Guidelines: Journal Name Date of Publication Title Author FINE ARTS VIEWING ASSIGNMENT This is a requirement which must be met for each semester. Failure to complete the assignment on time will result in a loss of up to ten points of the semester grade in both your performance and technical course grades. ON-CAMPUS REQUIREMENT: Each semester you are required to attend a performance of all on-campus productions offered by the Theatre Arts Department unless you are acting in the production or working in a backstage

2 assignment for the run of the show or have otherwise been officially excused by the faculty in advance. OFF-CAMPUS REQUIREMENT: Each semester you are required to attend 3 live, fine arts performances outside the department and submit your report by the deadline.the performances may all be theatrical, or you may substitute either a professional dance or classical music performance for one of the requirements. Any other substitutions will require prior approval by the Theatre Arts faculty. Most events offer student ticket prices and some events offer free tickets to ASFA. The faculty will make announcements in company meeting of opportunities available. If you have difficulty affording the tickets, we suggest that you offer to serve as an usher in return for seeing the performance. Notices of performances and usher openings will be posted on the callboard. FINE ARTS VIEWING REPORT Use this format, if not this form for each report. Either type or write legibly. NAME: DATE: TITLE OF PERFORMANCE: LOCATION: Select one aspect of the performance and discuss why you were positively or negatively affected by it.

3 PLAY READING ASSIGNMENTS Select published plays from Groups A, B and C on the list or other plays by listed playwrights. The list is a guideline. Sticking to the list will give you a good background in dramatic literature. Yearly minimums for each group are listed below. Submit a repost form on each play you read. For 7 th and 8 th grades, the requirement is 1 full-length plays per semester plus view one video from the selected classic films list. For 9 th through 12 grades, the requirement is 2 full-length plays per semester and 1 film from our classic films list. Second semester juniors and seniors may substitute 3 one-act plays for one full-length play when searching for senior project material. Plays read for your English classes may not be used for this assignment. The Theatre Arts faculty reserves the right to choose and assign specific plays to individual students. Student choices for plays not included on the reading list must first be cleared by a Theatre Arts faculty member. GROUP A: PLAYS WRITTEN BEFORE 1850 (Minimum of one per year for grades 9-12, not required for 7-8) Greek: Oedipus Rex, Antigone by Sophocles Medea, the Trojan Women by Euripides Lysistrata by Aristophanes English Renaissance: any play by Shakespeare French Renaissance: any play by Moliere English Restoration: The Beaux Stratagem by George Farquahar The Way of the World by William Congreve She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith The Rivals by Richard Sheridan GROUP B: MODERN PLAYS, Minimum of 1 per year grades 7-8; 2 per year grades 9-12 Russian: The Seagull by Anton Chekhov The Inspector-General by Nickolai Gogol A Month in the Country by Ivan Sergevich Tergenev Scandinavian: The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen A Doll s House by Henrik Ibsen An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen The Father by August Strindberg English: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Candida by George Bernard Shaw The Devil s Disciple by George Bernard Shaw

4 Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan by Gorge Bernard Shaw American: Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward Hay Fever by Noel Coward The Chalk Garden by Enid Bagnold A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder Our Town by Thornton Wilder The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller All My Sons by Arthur Miller The Crucible by Arthur Miller Picnic by William Inge The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman Another Part of the Forest by Lillian Hellman The Petrified Forest by Robert Sherwood You Can t Take It With You by Kaufman and Hart The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett Mary of Scotland by Maxwell Anderson Anne of the Thousand Days by Maxwell Anderson A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Harvey by Mary Chase The Heiress by Ruth and Augustus Goetz Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin Stage Door by Ferber and Kaufman The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers J.B. by Archibald MacLeish Golden Boy by Clifford Odets Ah, Wilderness! By Eugene O Neill Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O Neill Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck The Rope Dancers by Morton Wishengrad All the Way Home by James Agee The Amen Corner by James Baldwin The Miracle Worker by William Gibson Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring Dial M for Murder by Frederic Knott Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe Inherit the Wind by Lawrence and Lee The Dark of the Moon by Howard Richardson

5 European: A Thousand Clowns by Herb Gardner A Hatful of Rain by Michael Gazzo The Rainmaker by Richard N. Nash The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux The Enchanted by Jean Giraudoux Antigone by Jean Anouilh Becket by Jean Anouilh Thieves Carnival by Jean Anouilh Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht The Physicists by Frederick Durrenmatt Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello GROUP C: CONTEMPORARY PLAYS 1960-PRESENT Minimum of 3 per year grades 7-8; 3 per year 9-12 Listed are a group of playwrights of whom you may read. This list has some suggested examples of their work, but any play written by them is acceptable. Those with IRC after them are in the ASFA Library. Edward Albee Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, Zoo Story, Seascape IRC Sam Shepard True West, Buried Child Lanford Wilson Fifth of July, Talley s Folly IRC August Wilson Fences, Joe Turner s Come and Gone IRC Peter Schaffer Equus, Amadeus IRC Anthony Shaffer Sleuth, Murderer IRC Rebecca Gilman Spinning Into Butter, Boy Gets Girl Tom Stoppard The Real Inspector Hound, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Brian Friel Translations, Lovers IRC John Guare House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation IRC Robert Schenkkan The Kentucky Cycle (counts as multiple readings 9 plays) Neil Simon Anything of his in the IRC Wendy Wasserstein Uncommon Women & Others, The Heidi Chronicles IRC Harold Pinter The Homecoming, Betrayal, The Caretaker IRC Simon Gray Butley David Edgar The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Mary Barnes IRC A. R. Gurney The Dining Room, The Cocktail Hour IRC Beth Henley Crimes of the Heart, The Debutante Ball IRC Donald Margulies Dinner with Friends, Back Story Alan Ayckbourn The Norman Conquests (3 Plays), Bedroom Farce IRC Caryl Churchill Cloud Nine, Top Girls IRC Tony Kushner Angels In America (2 plays) Pt. 2 in IRC

6 Mark Medoff Children of a Lesser God, The Wager IRC As the acceptable mores of the arts became more open in the 1960 s, many of the plays contain adult situations and language. The following playwrights can be read with the faculty and parental permission. David Mamet American Buffalo, Glengarry Glen Ross IRC Susan Lori Parks Top Dog/Underdog, In the Blood Paula Vogel How I Learned to Drive PLAY READING REPORT Use this format, if not a copy of this form. Either type or write legibly. YOUR NAME: DATE: NAME OF PLAY: PLAYWRIGHT: GROUP: (circle one) A B C Any play, comic or serious, should engage or affect you personally. Describe your personal response to a particular event or comment by a character. Why was it significant to you? CLASSIC MOVIE VIEWING For 7 th and 8 th grads, the requirement is 1 full-length plays per semester plus view one video from the selected classic films list.

7 For 9 th through 12 grades, the requirement is 2 full-length plays per semester and 1 film from our classic films list. FILM VIEWING LIST THE AFRICAN QUEEN Bogart and Hepburn ANNE OF A THOUSAND DAYS Anne Bolynne and Henry VIII APOCALYPSE NOW! For those of you who missed our screening BONNIE & CLYDE - Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway CASABLANCA Bogart and Bergman CHINATOWN Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway DAYS OF HEAVEN Beautiful Romance. Great Sam Shepherd in subdued role. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO Russian Revolution epic romance EAST OF EDEN James Dean THE IMPOSTERS Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt - Great screwball comedy THE LAST PICTURE SHOW. Many Academy Award nominated performances REDS Warren Beatty - Russian Revolution from American s POV Fantastic! KING OF HEARTS (French comedy) Alan Bates THE ENGLISH PATIENT Ralph Fiennes Sweeping romance SOME LIKE IT HOT Billy Wilder screwball Comedy CINEMA PARADISO (Italian) Wonderful comedy CHILDREN OF PARADISE (French Classic filmed on the sly in Nazi-occupied Paris) THE GODFATHER PARTS I & II Brando, DeNiro and Pacino at their best THE GRAPES OF WRATH Henry Fonda, John Steinbeck Classic A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Robert Bolt Classic LAWRENCE OF ARABIA O Toole s sweeping epic THE LION IN WINTER Incredible performances by O Toole and Hepburn STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Brando and Vivianne Leigh s Classic A RAISIN IN THE SUN Lorraine Hansburry s classic NIGHT OF THE IGUANA Great Tennessee Williams NIGHT OF THE HUNTER Creepy thriller ON THE WATERFRONT Brando and Elia Kazan classic, Brooklyn Dockworkers ON GOLDEN POND Henry Fonda s last film ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO S NEST Jack Nicholson s Oscar Winner THE GOLD RUSH Charlie Chaplin s classic Silent Comedy WHO S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF Burton and Elizabeth Taylor SHANE (Classic Alan Ladd Western) THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (Classic Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western) CAMILLE CLAUDELLE (French) HAROLD AND MAUDE Romance between 20 year old and an 80 year old.

8 NETWORK Searing satire of TV THE FRENCH CONNECTION (NYC Cops) FRANNIE AND ALEXANDER (Igmar Bergman) THE IMMIGRANTS / THE NEW LAND (Two films about Swedish Immigrants) THE HAUNTING (Orig. directed by Robert Wise SCARY, SCARY SCARY!!!) Movie Viewing Report Movie Title Director Screen Writer Year Produced Describe your personal reaction to the film. What aspect of the film was most significant to you?