Theater studies

The course research is a more formal research project on a specific theatre topic studied or prominent in the field.  The research should be on one of the theatrical topics listed below…or elect to pick a topic of your own:

Early Theatre: The Greek City Dionysia Festival

Japanese Kabuki Theatre

Christopher Marlowe: The Other Elizabethan Playwright

Lord Chamberlain's Men

London’s Historic Drury Lane Theatre

Tennessee Williams and Society's Outcasts

American Musicals by Stephen Sondheim

Theatre in Prisons

The Tony Awards

Stage Musicals on Film

Areas that could be covered by this research  include (but are not limited by) the following.

a general history of the period, event, playwright, etc.

staging and production conventions, if applicable

plays and/or other related productions produced

audience responses to or involvement in theatre

Think originality and creativity…that is, graphics, charts, images/videos, /Prezi programs, audio, etc. are all accepted and encouraged.

10 Pages long in Microsoft Word