THDA 401 (1SY) - Freshman Seminar
Freshman Seminar
Term: Fall 2021 - Full Term (08/30/2021 - 12/13/2021)
CRN: 13773
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8/30/2021 | 12/13/2021 | W | 4:10pm - 5:00pm | ONLINE |
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8/30/2021 | 12/13/2021 | W | 4:10pm - 5:00pm | ONLINE |
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8/30/2021 | 12/13/2021 | TR | 9:40am - 11:00am | ONLINE |
Questions? Nina.Morrison@unh.edu
From Hamlet to Hamilton, THDA 435 Intro To Theatre covers highlights from theatre history, theatre now, & the theatre of tomorrow, and fulfills the FPA DIscovery Requirement. You will see live UNH Theatre & Dance productions and filmed theatre, take part in creative assignments, and find out the answer to: What is theatre? Where did it come from? Who makes it and how? What makes theatre special? How do I get free and cheap tickets? What will be the theatre of the future?
Students say: I loved this project. We all really bonded with each other and I think I made a new group of friends! I’m glad I took this class with friends. I’ve never taken a theatre class and never did something like this but I had a lot of fun.
Start Date | End Date | Days | Time | Location |
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8/30/2021 | 12/13/2021 | MWF | 2:10pm - 3:00pm | PCAC M223 |
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8/30/2021 | 12/13/2021 | MWF | 2:10pm - 3:00pm | PCAC M223 |
8/30/2021 | 12/13/2021 | F | 1:10pm - 2:00pm | PCAC M316 |
Start Date | End Date | Days | Time | Location |
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8/30/2021 | 10/15/2021 | Hours Arranged | ONLINE |
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8/30/2021 | 12/13/2021 | TR | 2:10pm - 3:30pm | PCAC M119 |
This course will examine the methods, intentions, and impact of dramatic adaptation. Contemporary playwrights frequently adapt classic plays from Ancient Greek theatre, Medieval morality plays, Shakespeare, and even classics of early 20th century realism, absurdism, and magical realism: deconstructing, refreshing, and reworking structure, characters, and themes to fit the writers’ new sociopolitical context. This seminar will examine both the original and updated works.
Theatre has the potential to make visceral connections with the audience through universal themes. But what is different about the audience’s experience of productions of original texts versus contemporary adaptations of these plays? Why and how do writers use classic stories as a template for something new? How can a production of an adapted play benefit from dramaturgical analysis and contextualization? Are there “classics” that have been excluded from the canon whose time has come for reexamination and adaptation?
Students will investigate the role dramaturgs, directors, and designers play in preparing an audience to see a classic or contemporary adaptation of a classic play. Students will also develop their own analytical questions such as: what makes the original worthy of adaptation, what types of techniques a writer may employ in adaptation and why, how theatrical themes evolve, and what is relevant to consider about the context in which each play was written.
This course fulfills the Discovery requirement in the category of Fine and Performing Arts. It also fulfills Writing Intensive, and Inquiry requirements.
As a Fine and Performing Arts Discovery, students will develop an understanding and appreciation of theatre as an artform by reading and watching plays from a range of historical periods, develop skills in creative writing including dramaturgy, which is a kind of research writing that combines academic research with applied creative writing, and produce art in the theatre in ongoing in-class staged readings, and as part of the final project. As a Writing Intensive course, it requires both high- and low-stakes writing, and offers practice in the planning and revision of creative and academic prose. As an Inquiry course, it emphasizes the formation and investigation of complex, open-ended questions.
There are no prerequisites and students do not need to have any prior theatre experience.
Examples of texts under consideration for the fall: Everyman by Anonymous and Everybody by Brandon Jacobs Jenkins, Macbeth by Shakespeare and Peerless by Jihae Park, Mother Courage by Bertolt Brecht and Ruined by Lynn Nottage, A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and A Doll's House Part II by Lucas Hnath, Trojan Women by Euripides and Trojan Barbie by Christine Evans.
Start Date | End Date | Days | Time | Location |
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8/30/2021 | 12/13/2021 | TR | 9:40am - 11:00am | PCAC M118 |
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8/30/2021 | 12/13/2021 | MW | 11:10am - 12:30pm | PCAC CSHP |
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8/30/2021 | 12/13/2021 | F | 11:10am - 12:30pm | PCAC CSHP |
Start Date | End Date | Days | Time | Location |
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8/30/2021 | 12/13/2021 | F | 9:40am - 11:00am | PCAC CSHP |