Congratulations to the 2008-2009 Sounding Board Student Ambassadors

Dance Ambassadors:
Renee Copeland
Molly Stoltz

BA Theater Ambassadors:
Alissa McCourt
Kat Wodtke
Tom Lloyd
Addy Salami
Molly Corkins
Laura Lechner
Andria Schumann

BFA Acting Ambassadors:
Elizabeth Griffith
Danice Cabanela

BA Design/Tech Ambassadors:
Rebecca Struch


These students, along with the Peers will act as your student/faculty liaisons. Go to these individuals with any concerns YOU may want to be brought up to faculty, or in a formal discussion setting where issues can be dealt with.

Congratulations again to these great students!

Best,
The Peers
Kendra, Ashley and Briar


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TH 3120: 20th Century Irish Drama: Nationalism, Identity, and the Stage
Spring Semester, 2008
Monday & Wednesday 1:25-3:20pm
Instructor: Kay Martinovich

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course examines the development of Irish dramatic literature from the late 19th century to the present. In addition to critical analyses, students will rehearse, stage, and perform selected scenes. Beginning with the establishment of the Irish Literary Theater in 1899 -- which later became the Abbey Theater – this course will focus on issues of nationalism and identity in a broad range of Irish play texts as well as in the cultural and political climate in which these texts emerged. Students will analyze the plays through the lenses of various critical and theoretical discourses including post-colonialism and feminism. Unique to this course is a practical engagement with the plays. Students will work on textual analysis, specific dialects, and the particular structure of each play's language. This dual interaction with the material -- performing and critical thinking -- is vital to an interrogation of the idea of 'Ireland' -- as well as the world beyond.

TEXTS
The Playboy of the Western World - John M. Synge;
Juno and the Paycock - Sean O'Casey;
Translations - Brian Friel;
By the Bog of Cats - Marina Carr.

INSTRUCTOR
Kay Martinovich is in the Ph.D. program of the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota. Alongside her graduate school career, Kay works as a professional theatre director predominantly in the Chicago area. From 1999-2006, she was an Artistic Associate with Irish Repertory of Chicago. For Irish Rep she directed several productions including the American premiere of Marina Carr's /By the Bog of Cats.../, Carr's /The Mai/, Stewart Parker's /Pentecost/, Tom Murphy's /Bailegangaire/, and Brian Friel's /The Yalta Game /and /The Bear/. In 2002 she graduated from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland with a Masters in Philosophy in Irish Theatre and Film Studies.