Is over!!! At least for a while. For those of you who don’t know, I am taking a leave of absence from CUNY’s The Graduate Center as I pursue creative goals and figure out if I do indeed want a Ph.D. in Theatre. Last night was my last class and I turned in my last …
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any of my homework, but I have been working on this for a while now and thought I’d share. Basically, this is the first half of an assignment for a seminar on radical pedagogy and Paulo Freire. One key practice in Freirean pedagogy is ‚??reading the world‚?? when …
I realized last night that the majority of conversations I have ever had as a graduate student are not deep, intellectually exciting conversations about the meaning of theatre and life and art … rather they are about 1) being overworked 2) bitching about how graduate school sucks up your life 3) details of assignments 4) …
I realized I haven’t really taken a moment to talk about my classes and coursework this semester. To start with, here are the course descriptions for the classes I’m taking … THEA 70100 – Theatre Research and Bibliography (Professor Pamela Sheingorn): This introduction to doctoral theatre studies prepares entering students for original research and scholarly …
Community I remember, so many years ago, talking with Catherine T. about grad programs. Probably bitching about Maryland‚??s at the time. She told me that she was really happy with the program and that there was so much less politics going on and that the community at UMD was much stronger than other places. I …
So we have been settling into the apartment slowly. Friday, I saw Lisa’s play In the Belly of the Beast with Two Backs at the Here Arts Center. It was an interesting piece with some nice moments and I would like to talk with her more about it at some point. Bumped into Liza Lentini …
Check out this story about new Greek & Roman texts being deciphered – we may have at least portiions of new plays by Sophocles andEuripedes!! I smell dissertations in the air . . .
The phrase ‚??politically correct‚?? immediately short-circuits any possibility of dialogue. 1a. Folded into the phrase ‚??politically correct‚?? is the assumption that the person who is being ‚??politically correct‚?? has no right to his or her feeling about a subject. This is a particularly dangerous assumption if one wants to value egalitarianism, multiculturalism or interculturalism … …
Peter Wood Theatre 791: Asian Theatre Aaron Anderson January 30, 2005 ‚??Preface‚?? & ‚??The Framework of Asian Theatre‚?? AC Scott Scott says that change ‚??in form rather than content marked progression in the Asian theatre; curiosity about the human condition, which became a motive for innovation on the western stage, affected it very little‚?? (5). …