ACC: Theatre Appreciation (DRAM1310)

Adjunct Professor of Drama, Heather L. Barfield, Ph.D.

So…why study theatre?

To understand the human experience.

To empathize and relate with our world.

To appreciate various modes of expressing the stories of our lives through language and bodies.

To expand your knowledge of people, places and things in both ordinary and non-ordinary realities.

To inspire action, hope or understanding.

To have fun!

To analyze and interpret a sometimes confusing and sometimes exquisite world.

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From TEDx Sydney:

"Theatre director Simon Stone deconstructs some of the common visual and audio tricks of modern theatre in this first-ever performance utilising a cast of first-time volunteer actors recruited in the days prior to TEDxSydney 2011 and rehearsed just once, the night before the event!"

"I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged." Peter Brook, The Empty Space (1968)

(pictured: from Battlefield at Kennedy Center, 2017, dir. Peter Brook)

JAQUES
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
-William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Broadway and the Tony Awards...

even a car can be a stage.