Week 16 Agenda [Tentative]

Monday, May 6th

• CONFERENCE PAPER/DRAMATIC WORK DUE IN MY MAILBOX IN ELABS 125 BY 5PM

Wednesday, May 8th

• GET-TOGETHER@UNIVERSITY DRAFTHOUSE, 7PM

Week 15 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, April 30th

• Share Creative Projects
• Homework
• Continue working on your Conference Paper/Dramatic Work
• CONFERENCE PAPER/DRAMATIC WORK DUE IN MY MAILBOX IN ELABS 125 BY 5PM ON MONDAY, 5/6

Thursday, May 2nd

• Malinalli@Jeffers Theatre, 7-10pm

Week 14 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, April 23rd

• Pedro Cano:
• Hudes, Water by the Spoonful
• Ybarra, “How to Read a Latinx Play in the Twenty-first Century: Learning from Quiara Hudes”
• Homework
• Prepare your Creative Project presentation

RR#13: "Water by the Spoonful" & “How to Read a Latinx Play in the Twenty-first Century"

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1. Reading responses must be AT LEAST 250 words.
2. Include your full name at the end of your comments. Unnamed comments will be deleted.
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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 13 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, April 16th

• Zugay Trevino:
• Cruz, Anna in the Tropics
• Aiello, “The Tragedy of Becoming: Hegel in Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics”
• Homework
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday, 4/23:
• Hudes, Water by the Spoonful
• Ybarra, “How to Read a Latinx Play in the Twenty-first Century: Learning from Quiara Hudes”
• post RR#13 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday, 4/21

RR#12: "Anna in the Tropics" & “The Tragedy of Becoming: Hegel in Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics”

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1. Reading responses must be AT LEAST 250 words.
2. Include your full name at the end of your comments. Unnamed comments will be deleted.
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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 12 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, April 9th

• Julietta Rivera:
• Edson, Wit
• Keaveney, “Death Be Not Proud: An Analysis of Margaret Edson’s Wit”
• Homework
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday, 4/16:
• Cruz, Anna in the Tropics
• Aiello, “The Tragedy of Becoming: Hegel in Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics”
• post RR#12 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday, 4/14

RR#11: "Wit" and “Death Be Not Proud”

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1. Reading responses must be AT LEAST 250 words.
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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 11 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, April 2nd

• Samyra Perez:
• Wilson, Fences
• Koprince, “Baseball as History and Myth in August Wilson’s Fences”
• Homework
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday, 4/9:
• Edson, Wit
• Keaveney, “Death Be Not Proud: An Analysis of Margaret Edson’s Wit”
• post RR#11 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday, 4/7

RR#10: "Fences" & "Baseball as History and Myth"

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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 10 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, March 26th

• Guest Lecturer: Dr. Marci McMahon
• Enrique Perez:
• Valdez, Zoot Suit
• Lucas, “Reinventing the ‘Pachuco’: The Radical Transformation from the Criminalized to the Heroic in Luis Valdez’s Play ‘Zoot Suit’”
• Herrera & McMahon, "¡Oye, Oye!: A Manifesto for Listening to Latinx Theater"
• Homework
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday, 3/26:
• Wilson, Fences
• Koprince, “Baseball as History and Myth in August Wilson’s Fences”
• post RR#10 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday, 3/31

RR#9: "Zoot Suit"; "Reinventing the 'Pachuco'"; & "¡Oye, Oye!"

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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 9 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, March 19th

• Danny Olivarez:
• Shaffer, Equus
• Mustazza, “A Jealous God: Ritual and Judgment in Shaffer’s Equus”
• Homework
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday, 3/26:
• Valdez, Zoot Suit
• Lucas, “Reinventing the ‘Pachuco’: The Radical Transformation from the Criminalized to the Heroic in Luis Valdez’s Play ‘Zoot Suit’”
• Herrera & McMahon, "¡Oye, Oye!: A Manifesto for Listening to Latinx Theater" (sent via email)
• post RR#9 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday, 3/24

RR#8: "Equus" & “Ritual and Judgment in Shaffer’s 'Equus'”

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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 8 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, March 5th

• Discuss Creative Project
• Discuss Proposal & Final Conference Paper/One-Act Play
• Michael McCormick:
• Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
• Chapman, “Staging Gendered Radicalism at the Height of the US Cold War: A Raisin in the Sun and Lorraine Hansberry’s Vision of Freedom”
• Homework
• Have a safe and restful Spring Break!
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday, 3/19:
• Shaffer, Equus
• Mustazza, “A Jealous God: Ritual and Judgment in Shaffer’s Equus”
• post RR#8 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday, 3/17

RR#7: "A Raisin in the Sun" & “Lorraine Hansberry’s Vision of Freedom”

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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 7 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, February 26th

• Discuss Midterm
• Mirella Martinez:
• Miller, Death of a Salesman
• Jacobsen, “Family Dreams in Death of a Salesman”
• Homework
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday:
• Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
• Chapman, “Staging Gendered Radicalism at the Height of the US Cold War: A Raisin in the Sun and Lorraine Hansberry’s Vision of Freedom”
• post RR#7 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday

RR#6: "Death of a Salesman" & “Family Dreams in 'Death of a Salesman'”

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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 6 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, February 18th

• Christian Martinez:
• Williams, The Glass Menagerie
• Kusovac & Pralas, “Repetition as Trapped Emotion in Williams’ The Glass Menagerie”
• Homework
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday:
• Miller, Death of a Salesman
• Jacobsen, “Family Dreams in Death of a Salesman”
• post RR#6 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday

RR#5: "The Glass Menagerie" & “Repetition as Trapped Emotion”

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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.