DRAMA 11SC Learning Theater: From Audience to Critic at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Alice Rayner and Linda Paulson Department of Drama, Stanford Master of Liberal Arts Program
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ho doesn’t love going to a play: sitting in the darkened theater, an anonymous member of the audience waiting
to be entertained, charmed, and challenged? But how many of us know enough about the details of the plays, their interpretation, their production, and acting itself, to allow us to appreciate fully the theatrical experience? In this seminar, we will spend 13 days in Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), where we will attend these plays: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Henry V, and Troilus and Cressida; George Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind’s Animal Crackers; the world premiere of Robert Schenkkan’s All the Way; Bill Rauch and Tracy Young’s new adaptation, Medea/ Macbeth/Cinderella; the world premiere of Party People, by UNIVERSES; and a new Shakespearean adaptation by Alison Carey, The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa. (To read more about these productions, go to http:// www.osfashland. org.) We will also spend time backstage, meeting with actors, designers, and artistic and administrative directors of OSF. Students will read the plays before the seminar begins. In Ashland, they will produce staged readings and design a final paper based on one of the productions. These reviews will be delivered to the group and turned in on Thursday, September 20. Note: This seminar will convene in Ashland on Monday, September 3, and will adjourn to Stanford on Sunday, September 16. Students must arrive in Ashland by 4:00 p.m. on September 3. Room and board in Ashland and transportation to Stanford will be provided and paid for by the program.
Alice Rayner
teaches dramatic literature and theory in the drama department, where she has been the Department Chair for the past year. Her interests include the phenomenology of theater, as well as comedy, genre theory, and rhetoric. She has taught freshman seminars on Shakespeare as interpreted on stage and in film. Her published books include Comic Persuasion; To Act, To Do, To Perform: Drama and the Phenomenology of Action; and Ghosts: Death’s Double and the Phenomena of Theatre. More
Linda Paulson is Associate Dean and Director of Stanford’s Master of Liberal Arts Program. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA and has taught at Stanford since 1985. Her research focuses on the Victorian novel and on the development of a British woman’s novel. In 1989, she received Stanford’s Dinkelspiel Award for Distinctive Contributions to Undergraduate Education. She frequently lectures for Stanford Travel/Study groups in England and France and has been taking Stanford undergraduates to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival since 1995. More
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GSBGEN 10SC Lives of Consequence
Rod Kramer Graduate School of Business Prerequisites: No prerequisites other than great interest in the topic!
politics, technology, and society) found a sense of purpose in their lives and then successfully pursued that purpose. In the creative domain, for example, we examine the lives of filmmaker George Lucas, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, lifestyle designer Martha Stewart, and master chef Thomas Keller. In the political sphere, we examine the lives of Margaret Thatcher, Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy. We also explore the work of individuals engaged in philanthropic efforts around the globe, including Melinda Gates and Paul Farmer. We complement the study of these individuals, and others, with a variety of readings from the social science literature on happiness, meaning, and creativity. Students interested in psychology, philosophy, creativity, the arts and sciences, or business should find the course particularly useful and engaging. Students, working individually and in small groups, will have a chance to apply the course concepts to their own lives, using a series of reflective writing exercises. Students will complete an independent research project on a topic or person of interest to them. They will make a presentation to the class on the basis of their research. The course is designed to be highly discussion-oriented and interactive. Students may take this course for either a letter grade or on a pass/fail basis. Letter grades for the course will be based upon the quality of the independent library research and class presentation, along with the quality and consistency of class participation. Both components (research and class participation) are equally weighted.
T Rod Kramer
is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Business School. He has written over one hundred articles and books on topics such as creativity, decision-making, leadership, power, and trust. He has taught and lectured around the world at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, and the London Business School. More
his course examines how exceptionally creative individuals from a variety of domains (including the arts, sciences,
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