You will be assigned a large city in the U.S. From that city, pick one professional theatre and one academic theatre. For each theatre, identify 10 current/future/recent productions that have been produced there. For each production title, identify the playwright and year of production. Then search the internet, post, and cite (with active link) for two different genre labels/quotes for each title. An example for Minneapolis' Guthrie Theatre (Professional):
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By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr (produced 2009)
"Marina Carr's engrossing Irish melodrama"
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2003-02-20/theater.shtml
"Marina's Carr's country tragedy"
http://quiktakes.blogspot.com/2006/10/from-will-stackman-profwlllyahoo_25.html
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2 total theatres; 20 total production titles; 40 total genre labels/quotes
Grade: 5 points for each complete production title (with 2 genre labels/quotes and accurate citation links)
DUE: Wednesday, February 3, at the beginning of class (10:00 a.m.)
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- David McTier
- David McTier is Professor of Theatre at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. He holds a Ph.D. in theatre history and criticism from the University of Texas at Austin.