Meeting/Reading Schedule

WEEK 1  

Tues 10  Student Meeting and Stella Bonanza

Thurs 12 Student Meeting

                Discuss: Twelfth Night

WEEK 2   

Tues 17 Sept: FACULTY MEETING

Thurs 19 Sept: Student Meeting

                          Discuss: The House That Will Not Stand (Marcus Gardley)

                          Discuss: Every Tongue Confess (Marcus Gardley)

WEEK 3   

Tues 24 Sept: Student Meeting

                        Discuss: Lysistrata Jones (Beane/Flinn)

Thurs 26 Sept: Student Meeting                   

                           Discuss: Third (Wendy Wasserstein)       

WEEK 4   

Tues 1 Oct.   FACULTY MEETING

                      Pitch A: Twelfth Night (Students)

                      Pitch B: E.E. Cummings (Erik)
                      Pitch C: Every Tongue Confess (Students)

Thurs 3 Oct: Student Meeting

                       Discuss: The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov)

                       Discuss: Three Sisters (Chekhov)

WEEK 5   

Tues 8 Oct: Student Meeting

                    Discuss: Candide

Thurs 10 Oct: Student Meeting (GUEST: CURT COLUMBUS) 

                         Discuss: Chekhov
                         Discuss: Sweeney Todd
                         Discuss: Anything Goes/1776

WEEK 6   

Tues 15 Oct.   FACULTY MEETING

Pitch A: Three Sisters (Chekhov)

Pitch B: The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov)
Pitch C: Sweeney Todd (Sondheim)
Pitch D: Anything Goes (Porter)
Pitch E: TomTom

Thurs 17 Oct: Student Meeting

                         VISIONS

WEEK 7   

Tues 22 Oct: Student Meeting (+Erik)

                       Discuss: Amerikafka (Kenneth Prestininzi)

                       Discuss: In The Heart of America (Naomi Wallace)

Thurs 24 Oct: Student Meeting   
                       Discuss: Cloud 9 / Mad Forest (Caryl Churchill)

                       Discuss: Visions (contd): Guest Director Options

WEEK 8   

Tues 29 Oct.   FACULTY MEETING

Pitch A: In The Heart of America, by Naomi Wallace

Pitch B: Cloud 9, by Caryl Churchill

Thurs 31 Oct: Student Meeting 

                       Discuss: The Adding Machine
                       Discuss: Middletown (Will Eno)

WEEK 9   

Tues 5 Nov: Student Meeting (w/ Erik!)

                       Discuss: WAR IS FUCKING AWESOME (Qui Nguyen)

                       Discuss: TITUS ANDRONICUS (Shakespeare)
                       Discuss: Guest Directors

Thurs 7 Nov: Student Meeting   
                       Reading Day Off: Visions Discussions Continued

                    

WEEK 10

Tues 12 Nov.   FACULTY MEETING

Pitch A: War Is Fucking Awesome

Thurs 14 Nov: Student Meeting 

                       Discuss: Blithe Spirit, by Noel Coward

                       Discuss: Rock&Roll, by Tom Stoppard

WEEK 11

Tues 19 Nov: Student Meeting

                       Discuss: Arms and the Man (Bernard Shaw)
                      

Thurs 21 Nov: Student Meeting   
                       Discuss: Lysistrata (Aristophanes)

                   

                                                                        WEEK 12

THANKSGIVING BREAK: NO MEETINGS

                                                                        WEEK 13

Tues 3 December: FACULTY MEETING

             Pitch A: Titus Andronicus, by William Shakespeare

             Pitch B: Rock&Roll, by Tom Stoppard

             Pitch C: Devised Pieced inspired by Trayvon Martin (Erik)

Thurs 5 December: Student Meeting

           Discuss: Accidental Death of an Anarchist & Isabella, 3 Tall Ships, and a Con Man (Dario Fo)

                                                                        WEEK 14

Tues 10 December: Student Meeting

            Discuss: For Colored Girls (Ntozake Shange)

            Guest: Katie Pearl

Thurs 12 December: Student Meeting (FINAL MEETING OF THE SEMESTER

            Discuss: August Osage County (Tracy Letts)