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As I sat on the bumpy train ride from New York to Boston reading Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury, I began to look forward to the year...

Isaiah - I really enjoyed reading your blog posts! Each set was impressively articulate and you really dived into both the lecture and...

Wicked as a representation of the Asian Immigrant Story It’s a challenge to assess a work and discover a new meaning that the work did...

In the chapter “Godot in Political Context,” from BECKETT: Waiting for Godot, David Bradby of the University of London examines the...

In “Enactments of Power,” N’gugi Wa Thiong’o discusses similarities and differences between the state and art. Additionally, he writes...

As I perused the TDM website at the beginning of last week and discovered that we’d be studying dance, I prepared myself for an exciting...

I actually hadn’t read Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard in quite a long time - so long, in fact, that I had hardly any memory of what it was...

Take one scene from Sophocles’ Antigone or Anne Carson’s Antigonik, and rewrite it in a Brechtian epic form. You can re-write the drama...

In the Poetics, Aristotle argues that all performance art begins with imitation. According to Aristotle, all theatrical pieces are...

In “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight,” Clifford Geertz examines the Balinese community tradition of setting cocks to fight...

Write about the difference between how the reporter (in voice over) narrates the Ta’ziyeh and how the participants (whose faces are seen)...

In “Theatrical Performance: Illustration, Translation, Fulfillment, or Supplement?” theatrologist Marvin Carlson discusses the use and...

In Oral Power and the Europhone Glory, N'gugi Wa Thiong'o discusses how performance art, storytelling, and theater possess the power to...