Theater and Performance Studies Week 3 Iris Tuan

Theater and Performance Studies Week 3 Iris Tuan

Shakespeare • The Taming of the Shrew • Act I Scene ii –Act III Scene i • Script Discussion

Watch the DVDs • The Animated Film • The Modern Film • The Hakka Performance

Discussion • Comparison and Differences • Characters • Plots • Various Adaptations

Performance Studies Theory • Marvin Carlson’s “What Is Performance? ” • Mary Strine, Beverly Long, and Mary Hopkins observe that performance is “an essentially contested concept”(68) • “sophisticated disagreement”(68) • Performance art is both historically and theoretically developed in the U. S. (69) • Hamlet’s response (70)

Performance Studies • On modern cultural scene (71) • This “other” as a character in a dramatic action • • • (71) Performance has become a highly visible or say emblematic art form in the contemporary world Dense interconnections exists in many intellectual, cultural, and social concerns by almost any contemporary performance project(72)

Presentation • Choose the topics and weeks for presentation • Class schedule will be revised • (change time and consider the holiday)

Homework • Take the textbook (2 plays) in the library • Next Fri. Double Tens Holiday, No Class • Buy the ticket for Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” (Nov. 7 -9) • If interested, welcome to watch the performance done by Cirque du Soleil