Last Term Work: Independent Study Questions due June 8

As you know, your end tasks are going to be performed the week of May 28.  This will ensure that those students who are in Outdoor Ed will be able to participate completely in this ensemble work despite their canoe trip.  In the meantime, here are the last term work questions that are to be done for the course.  They are due on June 8.  We will be in Rm 119, the computer lab, on June 1, I have booked the laptops for June 6 and 7, and we will be in the library on June 8th.  The work is not difficult, but it will be time consuming.

If you are working on these questions ahead of time, please make sure you e-mail them to yourselves so that you can easily access them at school to work on/print out.

Independent Study Questions                                                                                 ADA 3M

20 Marks Inquiry,   25 Marks Knowledge/Understanding

Select one option for each section of these independent study questions.  Remember to cite your sources.  To make certain you have accurate and up-to-date information, try to use three different sources for each of your answers.  Don’t forget the encyclopedia in the library—an excellent source for many items here!

A.     Playwrights                                /10  Knowledge                                /2 Inquiry

Select two of the following playwrights, one from Column A and one from Column B.  In three to five sentences, provide basic biographical information for each as well as the titles of his/her most important works.  Explain his/her importance to theatre.

A	B
Waawaate Fobister	Samuel Beckett
Dennis Foon	Bertolt Brecht
Norm Foster	Anton Chekhov
David French	Eugene Ionesco
Michel Tremblay	John Osborne
Tomson Highway	Eugene O’Neill
Ann-Marie MacDonald	David Mamet
Daniel MacIvor	Arthur Miller
Daniel David Moses	George Bernard Shaw
Wajdi Mouawad	Sam Shepard
John Murrell	Neil Simon
Morris Panych	Tennessee Williams
Sharon Pollock	Noel Coward
George Ryga	Caryl Churchill
Erin Shields	Harold Pinter
Drew Hayden Taylor	Robert Bolt
Judith Thompson	Tom Stoppard
George F. Walker	Luigi Pirandello
	Jean Genet
	Jean Anouilh
	Karel Capek
	Edward Albee

B.      Theatres/Theatre Festivals               /10 Inquiry

            Select two of the following, one from Column A and one from Column B.   In three to      five sentences, indicate their location and mandate/ importance.  Which of the two          would you be most likely to visit?  Why?  (Location?  Types of plays performed?

A	B
Winnipeg Fringe Festival	Sudbury Theatre Centre
Rainbow Stage	The Edmonton International Fringe Festival
Prairie Theatre Exchange	Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Le Cercle Moliere	Shaw Festival
Manitoba Theatre Centre	Tarragon Theatre
Merlyn Productions	Theatre Passe-Muraille
Magnus Theatre	Soulpepper Theatre Company
Manitoba Theatre for Young People	Native Earth
	Factory Theatre

C.      Choose a tic-tac-toe line.  Write four to five sentences identifying and explaining the importance of each element in your line.            /15 Knowledge              /3 Inquiry

Antonin Artaud and Theatre of Cruelty	The Quem quaeritis Trope	Kabuki and Noh Theatre
Jerzy Grotowski and the Theatre Laboratory	Stanislovski and the Method	The Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Laban and Laban Movement Analysis	Kathakali	Brecht and Epic Theatre

D.      Choose ONE of the following questions.                                               /5 Inquiry

1.       What is the importance of ACTRA and Canadian Actors’ Equity Association?   Can you work in a professional theatre or a film without belonging to either one?  Why/why not?

2.       Go to  http://www.actra.ca/main/resources/stage-parents-guide/.  List three things that you expected to see in this type of resource and one thing that surprised you.  Why were you surprised?  Does it make sense upon reflection?