Following on the heels of our successful trip last summer, TDPS is excited to announce our 2011 Study Abroad program in Ireland this summer! This five-week, six-credit course begins with one week of classes here in Berkeley before a four-week jaunt to the Emerald Isle to study Irish theater at its source. The course is open to anybody – Cal students, alumni, and the general public. On the agenda:
- Live and study on the Trinity College campus in the heart of Dublin
- See ten plays at a variety of venues including the Abbey, Peacock, Gate, and the Project Arts Center and on site at the Cork Midsummer Festival
- Attend acting classes with TDPS Acting Faculty
- Study Irish Dramatic Literature and experiment with the craft of live theater criticism
- Discuss current work with noted Irish actors, directors, critics and industry professionals
- Visit historical sites key to the story of the modern Irish nation and theater
- Fulfills Performance and Literature Upper Division requirement for Majors and Minors
- Also fulfills International Studies requirement or Arts and Literature requirement of the Seven-Course. Breadth Requirement for the College of Letters & Sciences
Fulfills Performance and Literature Upper Division requirement for Majors and Minors. Also fulfills International Studies requirement or Arts and Literature requirement of the Seven-Course Breadth Requirement for the College of L&S.
Write to Charlotte McIvor at charlottemcivor@yahoo.com for more information.
Come to our Scholarship and Program Information Session on Sunday, March 4, at 7pm in Dwinelle Annex room 126.
Register for the class online at http://summer.berkeley.edu/ starting in February!
Academic Program Description:
This study abroad program takes advantage of Ireland’s rich theatre, literary and historical culture by engaging students in the study and practice of Irish theatre from historical and contemporary contexts. Students will attend two courses: “Modern and Contemporary Irish Theatre: Culture, Context, Critique” and “Applied Acting Techniques.”
In “Modern and Contemporary Irish Theatre: Culture, Context, Critique” students will engage in Irish dramatic literature, history, and cultural theory in a lecture and discussion format. They will apply their knowledge to writing weekly critical essays addressing productions, trips, and class activities in order to integrate their intellectual knowledge with their lived experiences as theatergoers, performers and visitors in Ireland. These explored vis-à-vis Irish drama will include: the role of British colonialism and struggles post-Independence including partition of the North, the Catholic Church, the Troubles, and social change following the Celtic Tiger economic boom of the 1990s.
In tandem with the lecture/discussion component, this course offers students the opportunity to explore the craft of acting as a means of understanding the performer’s contribution to theatre. Through acting exercises and work on scenes and monologues taken from Irish canonical and modern works, participants will discover the challenges of bringing text to life on the stage, how personal and cultural experience shapes interpretation and how actors work with directors and technical theatre artists to tell the story of a play.
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