Senior Thesis Festival 2010
Senior theatre majors direct three very different British plays, running
in repertory. The thesis festival is directed, designed, managed and performed
by students under the advisement of faculty members Sharon Fogarty and Sandra
Goldmark.
All tickets are free, and all shows take place in Minor Latham Playhouse
(118 Milbank Hall).
Thursday,
March 4 at 8 PM
Friday, March 5 at 8 PM
Saturday, March 6 at 8pm
The Inca of Perusalem
By George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Tatiana Hullender
Set Design by Skylar Cozen
Costume Design by Sarah Darro
Lighting by Flora Vassar
Sound Design by Bethanie Mangigian & Nina Spierer
State Management by Emily Nagel
All tickets are free |
Thursday,
March 4 at 9 PM
Friday, March 5 at 7 PM
Saturday, March 6 at 9PM
Chair
By Edward Bond
Directed by Rachel Karp
Set Design by Flora Vassar
Costume Design by Stacey Berman
Lighting Design by Kati Fitzgerald
Sound Design by Victoria Pollack
Stage Management by Emily Kaplan
All tickets are free |
Thursday, March 4 at 7 PM
Friday, March 5 at 9 PM
Saturday, March 6 at 7 PM
4.48 Psychosis
By Sarah Kane
Directed by Danaya Almenares Mesa
Featuring Paige Johnson
Set and Costume Design by Ramsey Scott
Lighting Design by Kati Fitzgerald
Sound Design by Xuela Zhang
Projection Design by Diana Levy
Stage Management by Heather Englander
All tickets are free |
About the department
The Barnard College major
in Theatre
The Columbia College major in Drama and Theatre Arts
Situated at the intersection of the arts and the humanities, and in a world
theatrical capital, drama and theatre studies at Barnard and Columbia is
committed to the interaction of creation and critique in the shaping of
articulate performance: to the distinctive practices of reading, writing,
and research and their capacity to illuminate and ignite the conceptual work
of performance; to drama as the exploration and instigation of consequential
action; to acting as a means of claiming and clarifying embodied meaning;
to design as a practice for shaping meaning in material, space, and time;
to directing as an inquiry into the form and tempo of the theatre's world-making;
and to playwriting as the struggle to invent new performance languages to
impel, enrich, and interrogate that world, and ours.
The Barnard College Theatre major / Columbia College major in Drama and Theatre
Arts builds on its liberal arts setting by imagining an integrative approach
to performance, drama, and to theatre studies. Taking advantage of a wide
variety of studio coursework, of the Department's production season in the
Minor Latham Playhouse, as well as of a rich panoply of drama and theatre
studies courses, students' creative work develops in dialogue with critical
inquiry into the literature, history, culture, and theory of western and
nonwestern performance, typically combining coursework in theatre and drama
with study in other fields, such as anthropology, architecture, art history,
classics, dance, film, languages, literature, music, and philosophy. Students
work with accomplished artists, directors, designers, actors, and playwrights
whose work enlivens and enriches the contemporary American theatre; they
also study the critical, historical, and theoretical lineaments of drama,
theatre, and performance with celebrated teachers and internationally-recognized
research scholars. The coursework in the major also engages productively
with Barnard's "nine ways of knowing" and with Columbia's Core Curriculum,
by considering how critical questions and traditions are animated by the
forms, genres, and practices of dramatic theatre, and by conceiving the mutual
responsiveness of critical and artistic work to those questions. Making,
thinking about, and writing about art are an essential part of any undergraduate
education: for this reason the courses offered in the Barnard Theatre Department
and casting for its theatrical production are open to majors and nonmajors
alike.
In a small program, students at once receive individual attention and ample
performance and production opportunities. All students develop a vocabulary
for conceptualizing performance in common courses in the history, literature,
and theory of various world performance traditions. They also engage in the
range of disciplines sustaining modern theatre--acting, design, directing,
dramaturgy, playwriting--before taking up culminating work on a senior thesis.
An original creative project, the thesis can take several forms: a significant
research essay; a new play; or acting, dramaturging, directing, or designing
as part of the Department's annual showcase of thesis productions. Theatre
is a site of cultural innovation, transmission, and contestation, involving
a variety of verbal, visual, spatial, musical, and gestural languages.
Barnard/Columbia theatre majors understand the power of performance as an
act of articulation; in speech, through movement and embodiment, as the
manipulation of space, in the construction of an expressive event. Theatre
majors are well-placed to pursue advanced professional training in the arts,
as well as undertaking the kind of humanistic education that provides a solid
platform for success in a wide range of endeavors. In recent years students
have gone on to do graduate work in acting, dramaturgy, playwriting, arts
management, and theatre studies in prestigious MFA and PhD programs as well
as professional careers.
The Barnard College Theatre department collaborates
closely with two graduate programs housed at Columbia University; if you
are interested in MFA or Ph.D. studies in drama, theatre, and performance
studies at Columbia, please see
The Columbia
University Doctoral Program Subcommittee on Theatre and the
Theatre
Division of the Columbia University School of the Arts. |
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