Onstage, Offstage (Theater)

October 30th, 2007 admin

Course Title: Onstage, Offstage (Theater)

Formulated by: Ms. Vilma Fernando, BSE English

Course Description:

A window to the world of the theatre, its humanizing role in society and its relationship to the other arts.

Contents:

TIME DISTRIBUTION

I. The Nature of Theater Week 1

II. The Elements of Drama Week 2

III. The Major Forms of Drama Week 3
A. Tragedy
B. Melodrama
C. Comedy
D. Didactic drama

IV. The Pendulum Theatre Theory

A. Presentational Staging Weeks 4 - 9
1. Greek Theatre
2. Medieval Theatre
3. Elizabethan Theatre
4. Expressionistic Theatre
5. Epic Theatre
6. Absurdist Theatre
7. Asian Theatre

B. Representational Staging Weeks 10 - 11
1. Naturalism
2. Realism

V. The Theatre Practice

A. Theatre Artists (Artistic and Production Staff) Weeks 12 - 14
1. The Actor and Acting
2. The Director and Directing
3. The Designers
4. Stage Designer
5. Light Designer
6. Costume Designer
7. Production and Stage Managers

B. The Performance Weeks 15 - 16
1. The Stage
2. The Audience

READING LIST

1. PLAYS
a. Oedipus by Sophocles
b. Everyman - Anonymous
c. Hamlet by Shakespeare
d. Cyrano de Bergerac by Rostan
e. Waiting for Godot by Beckett
f. Death of a Salesman by Miller
g. Portrait of the Artist as a Filipino by Joaquin
h. Dulaang UP plays to be staged during the semester

2. BOOKS

Albright, H.D.; Halstead, William P.; and Mitchell, Lee. Principles of Theatre
Arts. Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1955.

Brockett, Oscar. Essentials of Theatre. USA Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
Inc., 1996

Brown, John Russell. What is Theatre? Oxford: Focal Press, 1997.

Hatlen, Theodore. Orientation to the Theater. USA: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1987

Heffner, Hubert; Selden, Samuel; and Sellman, Hunton. Modern Theatre
Practice. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1959.

Smiley, Sam. Playwriting: The Structure of Action.
New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1971.

3. VIDEO TAPES TO BE WATCHED
a. Noises Off
b. Hamlet
c. Cyrano de Bergerac
d. Streetcar Named Desire
e. Death of a Salesman

4. AUDIOTAPE
a. Oedipus Rex

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Attendance

Reaction papers to plays/movies watched

Scene Studies / Group reports

Quizzes / Exams

Actual Production

Work

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Global Phenomena

August 28th, 2007 admin

Formulated by: Vilma Fernando, BSE English

GLOBALIZATION

From one to another part of the world. Being understood by not only one, but for the rest of the world. Applying what is good for us and sharing what is good for the others.

Buckling beneath the growing global culture, indigenous people (groups rooted to a particular place by history, legend, and language) are fast becoming endangered people. With each group that is uprooted or assimilated, a culture vanishes.

Our best yardstick of cultural diversity is language, and the measurements are coming up short. Linguists estimate that every two weeks a language dies, taking with it unique ways of thinking, communicating, and living—and generations of irreplaceable knowledge.

Match the following words in Column A to their corresponding meaning in Column B

A	B
a) Phenomenonb) Cosmopolitan c) Ubiquitous d) Amplified e) Indigenous f) Investment	a) internationalb) native c)asset d) everywhere e) enlarged f) trend

Globalization
by Erla Zwingle

“Globalization”—lots of people seem to think it means that the world is turning into some consumer colony of America. Coke, CNN, McDonald’s, Levi’s, Nikes—if they haven’t taken over the world yet, the feeling goes, they will soon. (Odd: Japan is the world’s second largest economy, and yet I’ve never heard of anyone who buys Sony or eats sushi believing that it’s part of some plot to turn the world into Japan.)

But regardless of whether you’re buying or selling, in the past 20 years much of the world’s economy has become increasingly integrated and foreign direct investment has grown three times as fast as total domestic investment. From 1980 to 1995 the value of trade worldwide rose dramatically, with the total value of world exports estimated at U.S. $5.1 trillion in 1995, up from U.S. $2 trillion in 1980.

Yet the globalization phenomenon is more than the mere transfer of goods, the fact that, for instance, you can buy French mineral water and Danish beer in the Shanghai airport or eat Japanese ramen out of your suburban microwave. It’s the advent of cheap and ubiquitous information technologies that is dissolving our sense of boundaries. More and more television channels and the Internet have contributed to what expert Daniel Yergin calls a “woven world.”

When we talk about “globality” (a new buzzword), we’re trying to define a world in which cultures meet and, rather than fight, they blend. As observer Frederick Tipson notes, “More like a thin but sticky coating than a powerful acid, this cosmopolitan culture of communications networks and the information media seems to overlay rather than supplant the cultures it interacts with.” Because when cultures receive outside influences, they ignore some and adopt others, and then almost immediately start to transform them.
That’s how you end up listening to something called “bhangra pop” in India, to take an example at random: sounds like Jamaican reggae played on traditional Indian instruments, then amplified. “As things get more global,” commented Norman Klein, a communications professor in Los Angeles, “they’re actually becoming more localized.”

“Globalization will give us new ways not only to appreciate other cultures more, but to look on our own with fresh wonder and surprise”

Erla Zwingle

Globalization
– globalize/tion
- global/ize
- globe/al

Globe – rootword
-tion, -ize, -al - suffixes

Prefixes – attached at the beginning of a root (ex: in/form, mal/function)

Affixes – syllables added either at the beginning or at the end of a root to form a new word

Complete the chart by filling in the boxes of what is asked for

Complete Word	Prefix	Root Word	Suffix
Globalization	_________	globe	al, ize, tion
Investment	_________	_________	_________
Amplified	_________	_________	_________
Integrated	_________	_________	_________
Information	_________	_________	_________
Immediately	_________	_________	_________
Suburban	_________	_________	_________
Communication	_________	_________	_________
Traditional	_________	_________	_________
Boundaries	_________	_________	________

American Culture	European Culture	Japanese Culture	Indigenous Culture
_____________	_____________	_____________	_____________
_____________	_____________	_____________	_____________
_____________	_____________	_____________	_____________
_____________	_____________	_____________	_____________
_____________	_____________	_____________	_____________

Write a paragraph on how globalization has affected you personally and explain whether these changes are positive or negative.

Assignment:

“Is globalization a good thing, a bad thing or a combination of both?” Provide specific examples from your research.

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