Write about the difference between how the reporter (in voice over) narrates the Ta’ziyeh and how the participants (whose faces are seen) explain what we see.  Also, at the very end one of the actors tells the viewers  “this is not entertainment.”  Why does he make that distinction? If it is not entertainment, then what is it? […]

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Evaluate Antigone in Ferguson and Antigone Sr. using Richard Schechner’s terms: drama, script, theater and performance (video links are available on the syllabus). (first of all, apologies for the lateness–won’t happen again!) Drama, script, theatre, and performance. Schechner defines these four terms as such: drama, the most well-defined and innermost “circle,” as the story and characters the playwright has […]

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Think about N’gugi Wa Thiong’o’s assertion that the invisible is often made visible through performance.  Using specific examples from the film Couple In A Cage, reflect upon one or two theatrical elements that Guillermo Gomez-Peña and Coco Fusco employ to show how colonialism, as a system of domination, depends on performance to sustain it.   Couple in A Cage shows how art […]

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