Instructor

Professor Bill Tomlinson

Email: wmt@uci.edu

Phone: (949) 824-9333

Office: ACE Trailer (near Science Library and Parking Lot 8)

Office Hours: Tuesday 3-5pm or by appointment.

Description

Analysis of dramatic scripts. Examination of dramaturgic structure, character intentions and interactions, historical and literary milieu, and potentials for theatrical realization. May be repeated for credit.

Schedule

Week	Class Date	Topic	Readings / Videos
1	Jan 10	Logistics, Introductions
1	Jan 12	Intro to Script Analysis	Ball
2	Jan17	Intro to Script Analysis	Mamet
2	Jan 19	Guest Lecture – Kubiak
3	Jan 24	Lear, Characters	Lear
3	Jan 26	Lear, Design
4	Jan 31	Lear, Olivier version	Olivier Lear
4	Feb 2	Lear, Holm version	Holm Lear
5	Feb 7	Lear/Ran (Kurosawa)	Ran
5	Feb 9	Doll’s House, Characters	Doll’s House
6	Feb 14	Doll’s House, Design
6	Feb 16	Pygmalion	Pygmalion
7	Feb 21	Rosencrantz & Guildenstern	Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
7	Feb 23	Brazil	Brazil
8	Feb 28	Free choice (interactive)	Hagebolling, TBA
8	Mar 2	Free choice	TBA
9	Mar 7	Free choice	TBA
9	Mar 14	Free choice	TBA
10	Mar 16	Discussion of Final Papers

Assignments

Students are expected to participate in discussions during each class period. To support these discussions, students are expected to do all of the class readings and watch all of the videos prior to the class in which they will be discussed.

Each student will lead class discussion on two occasions, each time partnered with one other person.

For each of these classes, the leaders will each write a short paper (1000-1500 words) about their topic of discussion. These papers are due by email before noon on the day of each class you lead. All papers are encouraged to be media-rich and to cite external sources.

Students will write a longer paper, of 2500-3000 words, due during examination week. This paper may be an expanded version of one of the earlier papers, or it may be on a different topic.

Readings/Videos

Ball: Ball, David. 1983. Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays. Southern Illinois University Press.

Mamet: Mamet, David. 1998. Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama. Vintage Books. New York

Lear: Shakespeare, William. 1608/1999. Orgel, Stephen (ed). King Lear. Pelican Shakespeare. Penguin Putnam. New York.

Olivier Lear: King Lear. Film.1984. Directed by Michael Elliott, Starring Laurence Olivier. (DVD will be provided.)

Holm Lear: King Lear. Film.1998. Directed by Richard Eyre, Starring Ian Holm. (DVD will be provided.)

Ran: Ran. Film. 1985. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. (DVD will be provided.)

Doll’s House: Ibsen, Henrik. 1879/1992. Smith, Philip (ed.) A Doll’s House. Dover Publications. Mineola, NY.

Pygmalion: Shaw, George Bernard. 1916/1994. Pygmalion. Dover Publications. Mineola, NY.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern: Stoppard, Tom. 1967. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Grove Press. New York.

Brazil: Brazil. Film. 1985. Directed by Terry Gilliam. (DVD will be provided.)

Script available at: http://www.trond.com/brazil/brazil_script.htm

Hagebolling: Hagebolling, Heidi. Aspects of Interactive Dramaturgies: Thematic Frames and Authors Contributions. In: Hagebolling, Heidi (ed.). Interactive Dramaturgies: New Approaches in Multimedia Content and Design

Grading:

30% - Class participation

30% - Leading two classes (15% each)

20% - Two short papers (10% each)

20% - Final paper

Computer and Network Use Policy

When working on UCI systems, you are bound by the UCI Computer and Network Use Policy: http://www.policies.uci.edu/adm/pols/714-18.html

Add/Drop

Students will not be permitted to add or drop this course after Jan 20, 5:00pm.

Note

These are guidelines intended to help students plan their work in this course. However, the instructor reserves the right to make changes to this syllabus over the course of the quarter.