Sinead Hughes, a fourth-year theatre major, writes in The Ring about his experience as a stage manager during production of Woyzeck.

For the Woyzeck website click here. Please read A Different Way of Learning in The Martlet - a behind-the-scenes look on putting on a play in German by a student-actor Alina Wilson.

Using an experiential learning approach that combines theatre history with performance, the aim of this course is to develop a dramaturgical concept for a German play based on textual analysis, research, and in-class discussion, and to mount a German language production of the play at the end of the semester. While the play will be performed in German, the course is taught in English. Only the actors need to have a background in German. Fine Arts students will receive Theatre History credit.

Students will be required to do one small research assignment geared specifically to their part in the production, and we will collectively produce a small handbook for the play to be mailed to prospective audiences. A few classes on acting will be guest-taught by Clayton Jevne of the Theatre Inconnu. While the first part of the semester is structured more traditionally as a theatre history course, the class will increasingly become like a workshop with significant class time devoted to rehearsals.

In the future, the course will be cross-listed as a Germanic Studies/Fine Arts course, and students will be able to enroll in it more than once, provided that we are staging a different play.

Instructor: Elena Pnevmonidou, Cle D256, epnev@uvic.ca
GERS 438A
Time: Fall 2011, Mondays and Thursdays 11:30-1:00,
Room: CLE A211