MODERN AMERICAN DRAMA

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Class Schedule Fall 2001

THIS SCHEDULE OF LECTURES, DISCUSSIONS AND READINGS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

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DATE	SUBJECT	READING
8/29	Overview of the Course
8/31	The Theatre in Ante-bellum America	The Contrast
9/3	The American Theatre in the Post-war years;    The Advent of Show Business
9/5	American Melodrama	Fashion
9/7	Transitions:  Moody	The Great Divide
9/10	The American Theatrical Renaissance; The Provincetown Players; The Washington Square Players; The Lafayette Players
9/12	Eugene O'Neill	The Hairy Ape
9/14	Eugene O'Neill	Iceman Cometh
9/17	Eugene O'Neill	Long Day's Journey Into Night
9/19	Susan Glaspell	Trifles
9/21	The American Theatre during the 1920's; Theatre Guild
9/24	Rachel Crothers	He and She
9/26	Sophie Treadwell & American Expressionism	Machinal
9/28	The American Theatre during the 1930's; Federal Theatre Project;  Left-wing Theatre
10/1	The Group Theatre; Clifford Odets
10/3	Clifford Odets	Waiting for Lefty
10/5	Clifford Odets	Awake and Sing *
10/8	Lillian Hellman	The Children's Hour
10/10	Langston Hughes	Mulatto
10/12	The American Theatre during the 1940's
10/15	NO CLASS – FALL BREAK
10/17	Arthur Miller	All My Sons
10/19	MIDTERM EXAMINATION
10/22	Viewing: Dustin Hoffman's DEATH OF A SALESMAN
10/24	Tennessee Williams	Streetcar Named Desire
10/26	The American Theatre during the 1950's; Off Broadway; The Regions
10/29	Edward Albee	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
10/31	The American Theatre during the 1960's; A Changing American Theatre
11/2	The American Theatre during the 1960's; A Changing American Theatre
11/5	David Rabe	Streamers
11/7	African-American Theatre
11/9	Amiri Baraka	Dutchman
11/12	August Wilson	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
11/14	Ntozake Shange	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide….
11/16	Post-1960s Theatre
11/21, 11/23	NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING BREAK
11/26	Luis Valdez	We Don't Have To Show You No Stinking Badges!
11/28	David Mamet	Oleanna
11/30	Marsha Norman	Getting Out
12/3	Sam Shepard	Tooth of Crime
12/3	TBA
12/5	TBA
12/7	TBA

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