INTD 288: Shakespeare Acting Service Learning

 

Spring 2011                                                                 Melanie Blood

Sun 4-6:30, M 2:30-3:45                                        121 Brodie

Brodie 210                                                    blood@geneseo.edu, IM TheaProfonCall, x5840

                                                                                          Office hours: MWF 11:30, TR 10:30 

 

Required text:

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Arden 3rd edition.  ISBN1903436990

Optional texts:

(sections will be scanned and available on mycourses, or purchase on your own)

Playing Shakespeare by John Barton. Methuen Drama 1984. (also available on DVD).ISBN          0385720858

Shakespeare Set Free, vol 3. Peggy OÕBrien, ed. Folger Shakespeare Library. Washington              Square Press, 1995. ISBN 0743288513

 

Video supplements (optional):

Acting Shakespeare, by Sir Ian McKellen

Playing Shakespeare (series) with RSC and John Barton – original BBC programs that generated the book above.

Twelfth Night by Shakespeare – any version.

 

Student learning outcomes:

*To investigate learning Shakespeare by playing Shakespeare, using texts aimed at actors in professional training and at students

*To solidify and transmit discoveries of acting Shakespeare to students ages 11-17, encouraging discovery through active engagement

*To demonstrate our findings in an end of semester workshop style performance of Twelfth Night

 

Course Requirements:

1. Participation: is expected at all class meetings. You should be present and prepared for all course meetings. This course has been scheduled around classes and other performances. Class visits will also be scheduled around your other commitments. The last three weeks of the semester we will go into rehearsals for our end of semester performance; it may be impossible to perform in GENseng or GDE and also perform in our Twelfth Night production, but no other shows should cause problems. 40%

2. Journal: Required readings and optional video viewings should be discussed in your journal; include notes on major ideas, quotes, and your reactions. Written exercises in Shakespeare Set Free should also be done in your journal. Weekly entries on classwork should discuss class exercises, your own acting goals and your own progress in both acting and teaching. 20%

3. Teaching lesson plans: plans for classroom visits and the three larger workshop sessions will be based on our own trials of the Shakespeare Set Free curriculum. Plans should be detailed with your teaching team and turned in on the Monday before each time you teach. 20%

4. Rehearsal and performance. For the last three weeks of the semester we will rehearse Twelfth Night toward our own performance on April 29 in Mt. Morris and May 5 and 6 in the Black Box. 20%

This course is pass/fail. If you do everything required, you pass. Unexcused absences will result in failure. If you are sick or have an emergency, you should let me or your teaching team know asap.

 

Daily Syllabus

Mon 1/24

Go over course requirements, expectations. Explain optional 3rd credit in Thea 260.

Try basic text method from Shakespeare Set Free

 

Sun 1/30           Barton basics with scenes from Twelfth Night

                              Reading due: Twelfth Night acts 1&2, Shakespeare Set Free Intro & TolaydoÕs      ÒUp on Your Feet with Shakespeare: The Wrong Way and the RightÓ and Twelfth Night through Lesson 3.

Mon 1/31         Finish above

 

Sun 2/6              Reading due Twelfth Night acts 3-5; Barton chs. 2 ÒUsing the VerseÓ & 3   ÒLanguage and CharacterÓ

Mon 2/7            Finish above

 

Sun 2/13           Reading due Shakespeare Set Free Lessons 4-15 on Twelfth Night

Mon 2/14         Finish above

 

Sun 2/20           Reading due Shakespeare Set Free Lessons 16-19, and TolaydoÕs ÒA Touch, A        Touch, I Do ConfessÓ

Mon 2/21

 

Sun 2/27           Reading due Barton chs 4 ÒUsing the ProseÓ and 5 ÒSet Speeches and          SoliloquiesÓ

Mon 2/28         Lesson plan for single classroom visits due

 

*Class visits start week of 2/28

 

Sun 3/6              Reading due: Barton ch 9 ÒRehearsing the TextÓ

Mon 3/7

 

SPRING BREAK

*some class visits may continue through spring break, if any of you are able and interested

 

Sun 3/20           Planning the Sunday workshops

Mon 3/21         Finalize lesson plans for first workshop sessions, turn them in

 

Sun 3/27           First workshop day in Avon at Central School, at SUNY Geneseo for Central           Liv Co, and Mt. Morris at Theatre 101

Mon 3/28         debrief workshops, adjust lesson plans for 2nd

 

Sun 4/3              Second workshop day, Avon, SUNY Geneseo, and Mt. Morris

Mon 4/4            debrief workshops, adjust lesson plans for 3rd

 

Sun 4/10           Final workshop day, Avon, SUNY Geneseo, and Mt. Morris

Mon 4/11         debrief workshop, regroup for rehearsals

 

Mon – Thurs 4/11-14, rehearsals 7-10, location TBA

 

Sun – Thurs 4/17-21, rehearsals 7-10, location TBA

               OFF BOOK by Sun 4/17

 

Sun – Thurs 4/24-28, rehearsals 7-10, location TBA (some at Theatre 101)

 

Fri 4/29 8 pm Twelfth Night performance at Theatre 101, Mt Morris (Chamber Singers conflict)

 

Sun, Tues, Thurs tech/dress runs in Black Box

 

Fri-Sat 5/6-7 8 pm Twelfth Night performances Black Box