Skip to Main Content

Course & Subject Guides

Acting II THEA 1103 - Oakland Campus: Plays

This guide is to assist students in Bria Walker's Acting II course, THEA 1103, Fall 2019

All My Sons

All My Sons: Competing Contexts and Comparative Scales by Patricia D. Denison
more...less...
Arthur Miller's America : Theater and Culture in a Time of Change by Enoch Brater
Production history - IBDb
Original Production - Playbill Vault
All My Sons - original production photos in the Harvard Library Digital Collections
more...less...
photographs by Angus McBean

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Boundaries, Logistics, and Identity: The Property of Metaphor in Fences and Joe Turner? Come and Gone by Alan Nadel
more...less...
from the book May all your fences have gates: essays on the drama of August Wilson by Alan Nadel
No One Size Fits All: Womanhood, Feminism, and Female Archetypes in August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone by Dr. Kimmika L. H. Williams-Witherspoon
more...less...
Making Connections, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2014)
"Tomorrow Never Comes": Songs of Cultural Identity in August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" by Mary L. Bogumil
more...less...
Theatre Journal, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Dec., 1994)
Production history - IBDb

The Verge

Refusing Form: A Reading of Art, Americanism, and Feminism through Plant Imagery in Susan Glaspell's The Verge by Stacey Artman
more...less...
from Plants and Literature : Essays in Critical Plant Studies, BRILL, 2013
Susan Glaspell's The Verge: An Experiment in Feminism by Arthur Waterman
more...less...
from Great Lakes Review: A Journal of Midwest Culture Vol. 6, Issue 1. (Summer 1979)
Production history - IBDb

Fefu and Her Friends

"They are well together. Women are not": Productive Ambivalence and Female Hom(m)osociality in Fefu and Her Friends by Piper Murray
more...less...
Modern Drama, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Winter 2001)
Feminism, metatheatricality, and mise-en-scene in Maria Irene Fornes's Fefu and Her Friends by Penny Farfan
more...less...
Modern Drama, vol. 40, no. 4 (1997)
Production history - Lortel Off-Broadway database

The Iceman Cometh