Blog Info Update

Dear Dave (and mom and others),

The pictures I post will not stay up, so the captions now explain a little box with a question mark. I totally promise they didn't originally look like that. Thanks.

Rachel

Schools that offer Dramaturgy Programs are...

 If you are interested in obtaining an MFA in Dramaturgy these schools offer such a program:

• Iowa State University
• Yale
• (BFA) University of Arizona
• University of Oklahoma 
• (BFA) DePaul University
• Catholic University
• University of Washington

Information on Dramaturgy Degrees

 If you are interested in obtaining an MFA in Dramaturgy these schools offer such a program:

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TREASURE HUNT!!!

1. Original Transcript Link: http://books.google.com/books?id=30xKAAAAIAAJ&dq=Frühlings+Erwachen&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=IRWWaTnlQH&sig=Gi0snONzdXaHlIKleEsLqtoJpKw&hl=en&ei=Hvo7SoWuH9eJtgf_nMkZ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8

2. Original 1906 set design (and picture):  http://www.glopad.org/pi/en/record/digdoc/619

3. A picture from the 1917 production

   

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Spring-Awakening/Frank-Wedekind/e/9780865479784

4. First Review paragraph of "Spring Awakening" from the NYT (Charles Isherwood): "As species go, the rock star is relatively young. Carbon dating has fixed its emergence from the primordial ooze of postwar pop at sometime in the 1950's, somewhere in the continental United States. So it is disorienting to find the 19th-century German schoolboys in the new musical "Spring Awakening" yanking microphones from inside their little woolen jackets, fixing us with baleful gazes and screaming amplified angst into our ears." ://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/theater/reviews/16awak.html?scp=2&sq=Spring+Awakening+musical+review+&st=nyt

5.  The off-broadway production has a masked man. The broadway production had to cut him out. So basically, the off-broadway version is closer to the original script.

6. If I attend the musical I will be driving to...the Music Hall in downtown Kansas City anytime between October 13th-18th. Tickets are around $42.00 (Mom, we need to go see this.)

7. There is indeed an Amateur production available. You can purchase it through MTL.

8. David Rooney reports that, "There's not only the moral corruption of our youth, but the creeping sensuality of these liberal-minded times."

9.  Franzen, fo sho.

10."Touch Me" Spring Awakening on Broadway in 2007 

This is an awesome pirated copy of "Touch Me". Watch it!!

">"Touch Me" Spring Awakening on Broadway in 2007
 

The Play Artifacts: Hamburg, Germany, 1892

(A New Housing Division built in 1890. A probable location for the main character's homes')

 Top: Pinafore of 2009

 Bottom: Pinafore of 1892

Spring Awakening: The Basics

Spring Awakening has been a controversial play from the moment of publication in 1892.  Centering around sexual maturation with characters of 14 and 15, the "spring awakenings" are the first "stirrings" of sexual curiosities. The play deals with a colorful cast of characters including ten girls/women, and fifteen men/women.  The leading boys are Melchior, Moritz, Hanschen, Ernst, Georg, and Otto.  The lovely ladies are Wendla, Martha, Thea, Anna, and Ilse.  Throughout the entire show, they manage to get into little spots of trouble together. 

Basic Facts about the play

• This was the playwright's first play
• The play takes place in Germany in 1892
• It is believed that the characters live near or in Hamburg, Germany

What is Dramaturgy?

LMDA "Definitions" Page

http://www.lmda.org/blog/WhoWeAre/AboutDramaturgy 

The Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas define Dramaturgy as: "Contextualizing the world of a play, establishing connections among the text, and creating conversations about plays in their communities". That is just naming a few of the most basic definitions for this most mysterious word. 

Basically, it's like making an informed decision (in a way, it's sort of like how scientists use hypotheses).  The major difference is, this information is used to help the team/group make an informed decision.  It's mildly important to comprehend - scratch that - hugely important that an actor comprehends this term.  In order to rightfully create the fictional world a play takes place in, the actor should know what all unknown words mean, the time period pertaining to the play, understanding unknown values of money, etc. 

Know what you are talking about if you are performing it!!

"Connecting knowledge with practice to make informed choices" --Dave McTier