We're back! This year Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about theater and drama. Are you in drama club? Want to know about the history of theater? Maybe learn some theater history? Have a lot of fun? This is the series for you! Over the next year, we're going to learn about the history and workings of the dramatic arts, together. It's going to be a great time, very low drama. Except it's all drama. Embrace the paradox, folks.
We're back! This year Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about theater and drama. Are you in drama club? Want to know about the history of theater? Maybe learn some theater history? Have a lot of fun? This is the series for you! Over the next year, we're going to learn about the history and workings of the dramatic arts, together. It's going to be a great time, very low drama. Except it's all drama. Embrace the paradox, folks.
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Season 1
9 Feb 2018 – 1 Mar 2019 · 50 episodes
1What is Theater?9 Feb 2018
2Thespis, Athens, and the Origins of Greek Drama16 Feb 2018
3Tragedy Lessons from Aristotle23 Feb 2018
4Greek Comedy, Satyrs, and Aristophanes2 Mar 2018
5Dances to Flute Music and Obscene Verse. It's Roman Theater, Everybody9 Mar 2018
6Roman Theater with Plautus, Terence, and Seneca16 Mar 2018
7Nostrils, Harmony with the Universe, and Ancient Sanskrit Theater23 Mar 2018
8The Death and Resurrection of Theater as...Liturgical Drama6 Apr 2018
9Hrotsvitha, Hildegard, and the Nun who Resurrected Theater13 Apr 2018
10Get Outside and Have a (Mystery) Play20 Apr 2018
11Just Say Noh. But Also Say Kyogen27 Apr 2018
12Pee Jokes, the Italian Renaissance, Commedia Dell'Arte4 May 2018
13The English Renaissance and NOT Shakespeare11 May 2018
14Straight Outta Stratford-Upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Early Days18 May 2018
15Shakespeare's Tragedies and an Acting Lesson25 May 2018
16Comedies, Romances, and Shakespeare's Heroines1 Jun 2018
17English Theater After Shakespeare8 Jun 2018
18Where Did Theater Go?15 Jun 2018
19The Spanish Golden Age29 Jun 2018
20Rules, Rule-Breaking, and French Neoclassicism6 Jul 2018
21Moliere - Man of Satire and Many Burials13 Jul 2018
22Pre-Columbian Theater, Spanish Empire, and Sor Juana21 Jul 2018
23Japan, Kabuki, and Bunraku27 Jul 2018
24All Night Demon Dance Party - Kathakali3 Aug 2018
25China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera10 Aug 2018
26England's Sentimental Theater17 Aug 2018
27Why So Angry, German Theater?24 Aug 2018
28The Rise of Melodrama7 Sep 2018
29North America Gets a Theater...Riot14 Sep 2018
30Race Melodrama and Minstrel Shows21 Sep 2018
31Zola, France, Realism, and Naturalism28 Sep 2018
32Realism Gets Even More Real5 Oct 2018
33Symbolism, Realism, and a Nordic Playwright Grudge Match12 Oct 2018
34Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theatre19 Oct 2018
35The Horrors of the Grand Guignol2 Nov 2018
36Synge, Wilde, Shaw, and the Irish Renaissance9 Nov 2018
37Dada, Surrealism, and Symbolism23 Nov 2018
38Expressionist Theater30 Nov 2018
39Futurism and Constructivism7 Dec 2018
40Little Theater and American Avant Garde15 Dec 2018
41The Harlem Renaissance21 Dec 2018
42Federal Theatre and Group Theatre4 Jan 2019
43Antonin Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty13 Jan 2019
44Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theatre18 Jan 2019
45Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd25 Jan 2019