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Overview: In 50 videos, Mike Rugnetta teaches you theater and drama! This course is based on an introductory college level course in Theater and explores the history, theory, and technology that contributes to the art form most like life. By the end of this course, you will be able to: * Describe the leading theories of the origins of theater * Understand how theater was produced and what it meant to audiences around the world * Analyze the historical and cultural contexts that lead to the creation of different movements in theater history * Argue for the importance of producing and understanding theater |
What Is Theater? (S1E1)2/9/2018
Thespis, Athens, and The Origins of Greek Drama (S1E2)2/16/2018
Tragedy Lessons from Aristotle (S1E3)2/23/2018
Greek Comedy, Satyrs, and Aristophanes (S1E4)3/2/2018
Dances to Flute Music and Obscene Verse. It's Roman Theater, Everybody (S1E5)3/9/2018
Roman Theater with Plautus, Terence, and Seneca (S1E6)3/16/2018
Nostrils, Harmony with the Universe, and Ancient Sanskrit Theater (S1E7)3/23/2018
The Death and Resurrection of Theater as...Liturgical Drama (S1E8)4/6/2018
Hrotsvitha, Hildegard, and the Nun who Resurrected Theater (S1E9)4/13/2018
Get Outside and Have a (Mystery) Play (S1E10)4/20/2018
Just Say Noh. But Also Say Kyogen (S1E11)4/27/2018
Pee Jokes, the Italian Renaissance, Commedia Dell'Arte (S1E12)5/4/2018
The English Renaissance and NOT Shakespeare (S1E13)5/11/2018
Straight Outta Stratford-Upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Early Days (S1E14)5/18/2018
Shakespeare's Tragedies and an Acting Lesson (S1E15)5/25/2018
Comedies, Romances, and Shakespeare's Heroines (S1E16)6/1/2018
English Theater After Shakespeare (S1E17)6/8/2018
Where Did Theater Go? (S1E18)6/15/2018
The Spanish Golden Age (S1E19)6/29/2018
Rules, Rule-Breaking, and French Neoclassicism (S1E20)7/6/2018
Moliere - Man of Satire and Many Burials (S1E21)7/13/2018
Pre-Columbian Theater, Spanish Empire, and Sor Juana (S1E22)7/21/2018
Japan, Kabuki, and Bunraku (S1E23)7/27/2018
All Night Demon Dance Party - Kathakali (S1E24)8/3/2018
China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera (S1E25)8/10/2018
England's Sentimental Theater (S1E26)8/17/2018
Why So Angry, German Theater? (S1E27)8/24/2018
The Rise of Melodrama (S1E28)9/7/2018
North America Gets a Theater...Riot (S1E29)9/14/2018
Race Melodrama and Minstrel Shows (S1E30)9/21/2018
Zola, France, Realism, and Naturalism (S1E31)9/28/2018
Realism Gets Even More Real (S1E32)10/5/2018
Symbolism, Realism, and a Nordic Playwright Grudge Match (S1E33)10/12/2018
Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theater (S1E34)10/19/2018
The Horrors of the Grand Guignol (S1E35)11/2/2018
Synge, Wilde, Shaw, and the Irish Renaissance (S1E36)11/9/2018
Dada, Surrealism, and Symbolism (S1E37)11/23/2018
Expressionist Theater (S1E38)11/30/2018
Futurism and Constructivism (S1E39)12/7/2018
Little Theater and American Avant Garde (S1E40)12/15/2018
The Harlem Renaissance (S1E41)12/21/2018
Federal Theatre and Group Theater (S1E42)1/4/2019
Antonin Artaud and the Theater of Cruelty (S1E43)1/13/2019
Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theater (S1E44)1/18/2019
Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd (S1E45)1/25/2019
Broadway, Seriously (S1E46)2/1/2019
The Birth of Off Broadway (S1E47)2/8/2019
Poor Unfortunate Theater (S1E48)2/15/2019
Into Africa and Wole Soyinka (S1E49)2/22/2019
Broadway Book Musicals (S1E50)3/1/2019 |