After two years of viewing performances online, Brock University students learning the art of theatre criticism will experience indoor, in-person theatre at the celebrated Stratford Festival and Shaw Festival Theatre.<\/p>\n
DART 3P94 Theatre Criticism is an online intensive Summer Term course run between July 11 and 22, bolstered by field trips to see live productions at Canada\u2019s leading theatre companies.<\/p>\n
Taught by Karen Fricker, Associate Professor of Dramatic Arts and theatre critic for The<\/em> Toronto Star<\/em>, the course introduces students to the practical craft of theatre criticism and dives into the theoretical background of the discipline.<\/p>\n Fricker said that after two years of running the course during the pandemic and having students review digital theatre exclusively, it will be thrilling to view live productions again.<\/p>\n \u201cBoth the Shaw and Stratford Festivals have full indoor seasons this year and I\u2019m looking forward to bringing the course to shows there,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re setting up some post-show talks so that students will be able to ask questions about the productions they\u2019ve seen with the artists who made them.\u201d<\/p>\n Stratford Festival is welcoming back audiences beginning in May with a season theme of \u2018New Beginnings\u2019 and featuring plays such as Hamlet <\/em>and Little Women <\/em>and the musical Chicago<\/em>. The largest classical repertory theatre in North America celebrates a its milestone 70th year in 2022.<\/p>\n Shaw Festival Theatre, in its 60th season, will feature 13 plays across three stages in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Productions include The Importance of Being Earnest<\/em>, Everybody<\/em> and The Doctor\u2019s Dilemma. <\/em><\/p>\n After seeing productions, students will write and discuss responses to them and learn about alternative, digital, performative and visual forms of critical response, while engaging with theatre culture.<\/p>\n Registration for Spring\/Summer courses is now open through the Admissions website<\/a>. Students interested in learning more about the course are encouraged to contact Fricker at kfricker@brocku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n Learn more about the 2022 seasons at Stratford Festival<\/a> and Shaw Festival Theatre<\/a> online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After two years of viewing performances online, Brock University students learning the art of theatre criticism will experience indoor, in-person theatre at the celebrated Stratford Festival and Shaw Festival Theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":77694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,37,1],"tags":[6442,11467,656,109,3166,46,2518,1030,11468,3892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77695,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77693\/revisions\/77695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}