Playwrights on Stage: London and Dublin
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The four-week program will begin in London, where you will see plays in such famous venues as the Barbican, Royal National Theatre, Old Vic, Royal Court, and West End theaters in London. In Dublin, you will attend performances in the Abbey, Gate, Project Arts, and the Civic theatres in Dublin. You will visit the Theatre Museum in London, tour the Abbey backstage and onstage with one of Ireland's best-known actors, as well as take a backstage, cellar, and fly space of Dublin's famous Victorian theatre, the Gaiety.
Students will have time to visit London cultural centers like the National Gallery, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert, the Tate Modern, and the Glove Playhouse. In Dublin, students will be able to visit the National Gallery, the National History Museum, Dublin Castle, St. Patrick's Cathedral, and the National Library.
This program is for undergraduate and graduate students in all fields who love the theater. Applications are especially encouraged from those who have an interest in the great dramatic traditions of Britain and Ireland, particularly in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The program is based on the premise that the professional theater of both countries have entwined like a double helix since the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw brought Henrik Ibsen's Theater of Ideas to the London Stage in the 1890s. The program will focus on this close relationship by studying and observing the theatrical styles of London and Dublin theater and reading selected major modern dramas by Shaw, Synge, Coward, O'Casey, Beckett, Pinter, Friel, Stoppard, and Caryl Churchill.
Students are required to register for six credits at the graduate or undergraduate level.
Modern British and Irish Playwrights
(ETS 320/ENG 600, 3 credits, undergraduate and graduate)
This course will introduce many of the major British and Irish dramatists of the Modern and Post-Modern Periods. Students will learn how the historical events of the twentieth century informed the writers on both sides of the Irish Sea and have begun to bring Celt and Saxon together.
Independent Study
(ETS 490/Eng 690, 3 credits, undergraduate and graduate)
Students will select and develop a specific topic on Modern British and/or Modern Irish drama or contemporary theater practice in consultation with the instructor through individual tutorials during the four-week program. The project will be completed after the program ends and sent to the instructor by September 1, 2007.
Sanford Sternlicht was chair of the Theatre Department of the State University of New York at Oswego for twelve years and is now a professor of English at Syracuse University. He is a trained actor and theater director as well as a drama scholar. Among his 30 published books are several on British and Irish dramatists. He was Leverhulme Visiting Fellow in the University of York, England and a Fulbright Senior Specialist and Visiting Professor of English at the University of Pecs, Hungary. He was a member of the Globe Playhouse Trust in London and he has directed a program in Irish drama in Dublin for the past thirteen summers.
Students are warmly encouraged to contact Professor Sternlicht by e-mail: svsternl@syr.edu.
Participants arrange and pay for their own transatlantic transportation and for their ground transportation from the airport to the program site. The program begins in London and ends in Dublin.
Advantage Travel, a travel agency we use often, is arranging a group flight for students in this program. If you would like to travel with the group, please contact Sally Curtis at scurtis@advantagecny.com or 1-800-788-1980.
Transportation for travel from London to Dublin is arranged by SU Abroad and is included in the program fee.
Important Note: Do not purchase your airline ticket before receiving written notification form us that you can book your flight. You will have to present this notification if we cancel the program at a later date, and you want to be reimbursed for the cost of the ticket.
In London, students will be housed in shared rooms in furnished flats arranged by Syracuse University. SU Abroad's pre-arranged housing in the heart of the University district, the Bloomsbury neighborhood of London, and a short walk to our London Centre. In Dublin, students will be housed in shared rooms in a hotel or Residence Hall.
The London visit will commence with a bus tour of the city. In Dublin there will be a walking tour of the city.
| Arrival in London: | May 31 |
| Housing begins: | May 31 |
| Program begins in London: | May 31 |
| Depart for Dublin: | June 17 |
| Program ends in Dublin: | June 29 |
| Housing ends in Dublin: | June 30 |
| Depart Dublin for the U.S.: | June 30 |
| Application deadline: | March 1* |
* Applications received after March 1 will be considered if there is still space in the program.
| UNDERGRADUATE (6 credits) | |
|---|---|
| Tuition | $4,866 |
| Program Fee | $3,010 |
| Total | $7,876 |
| GRADUATE (6 credits) | |
| Tuition | $6,072 |
| Program Fee | $3,010 |
| Total | $9,082 |