Meditation #1 -- Katie Marchant -- 1/30/07

My theatre history background is basically the plays I read in my high school English classes. These plays include Antigone, The Odyssey, Shakespeare and then more modern stuff like A Raisin In The Sun and Death of a Salesman. In my AP English 5 class we read lots of Shakespeare, including Othello, Oedipus Rex, King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We also learned a little Shakespearian history about the Globe Theatre and Shakespearian England, not that I remember a lot of it! What I know about the beginning of theatre is what I learned in C/I with Kirk like Ian talked about in his meditation, the first person to step out of the chorus etc. I hope to learn more about why people started the theatre in the first place and what it came from.
I also really want to learn about the technical side of theatre history like I said in class. Because I am a technical theatre person I don’t have as much interest in the acting side of the history compared to the technical aspects. I hope that in this course I will have the chance to learn and even research these technical aspects because I believe that it will help me later on in my career if I stick with my plan to be a production manager for a major performing arts company.