#ooc

In order, we got commedia, shakespeare, and kabuki

Odd. You'd think we'd get the mystery plays, and maybe some of the old Celtic earthworks performance architecture, at least.

Or the transition from Greek amphitheater to dark ages freak show wagons to mystery plays in the cathedrals to pageant wagons and then to Elizabethan theater construction.

(That's my jam.)

I teach the M's, and am often the only one

Szof has done some with that, too

I'm just saying what is most often taught

Got it.

BRB

Now, like, Nagasani knows a TON about India

She has much better context than I do

I tend to place theatre in context of the greater tradition/western perspective than from within ancient india

Yeah, that's outside of my realm, completely.

Well, except for some aspects of, like, Balinese ritual theater.

Yeah

Sanskrit theatre is pretty cool

it is one of the first forms of theatre to emerge, worldwide

a few hundred of the titles have survived!

(we have, like, 40 greek plays left)

Oh, wow. So yeah, more structured than "sympathetic magic performance."

Oh yes

there is some speculation that the origin of indian theatre is via contact with the greeks by proxy of the macedonians

Makes sense. Trade routes weren't just for physical goods.

they even have a theatre manual, the Natyashastra

it gives detailed performance instructions

I have a copy!

Okay, that's crazy that that survived!

That is super cool.

it's from ~200 BCE

So, not so long ago as the ancient Greek stuff, but still impressive as hell.

Yup

Older than Noh or Kabuki, though. Kabuki gets to claim "longest continuous tradition"

but Sanskrit got disrupted by conquest

Medieval Islam, as a rule, doesn't do theatre

You're going to share some pages from that text that you have during the class?

probably

I would suggest making that definite. I'd want to know what it looks like as a text, and what some of those detailed instructions are. (And there's a good 5+ minutes of instructional time.

True!

Hm. My copy might be on campus.

noooooooo

Swipe some images from online

yesssssss

Okay, this is ridiculous. I need to just fucking nap for 15 min or something.

I'm in this sort of grey space, brain-wise.

AFK a few.

ok!

Back.

wb

I am working on slides, at least