Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-08-20 | Page 10 | Courses Arranged in Dramatic Work

COURSES ARRANGED 1 DRAMATIC WORK Writing and Production of Plays to Be Studied at Utah University. A course in -writing and production of plays is to be incorporated into the elective course of study at the Univer- ; sity of Utah this year under the direc: ! tion of Professors B. Roland Lewis and Maud May Babcock. The purpose of the course is strictly practical, and is intended to encourage those who have a natural aptitude for such work. The laboratory method of instruction will be used. The major part of the work will be devoted directly to play construction and play writing. After the proper foundation in theory the-ory has been laid, each student will be required to compose and develop satisfactorily satis-factorily a dramatic episode, scenarios, one-act plays and one-three-act play. Observations will be carried on in the theaters of Salt Lake. Weekly laboratory work in effective staging and in dramatic analysis and synthesis will be an important feature. 'There will be frequent personal conferences con-ferences between the professors and the students. Professor B. Roland Lewis of the department de-partment of English, who will give the course, has had training in the drama at Harvard under the direction of Professors Pro-fessors Bernbaum, Kittredge and George Pierce Baker. He was an honor research man in dramatic literature in the Har-! Har-! vard graduate school from 1913 to 1915 i and was a member of the ''English 47 Workshop" from 1913 to 1915. He has devoted the last nine years largely j to teaching dramatic literature and to giving lectures and writing magazine articles on this subject. He has also had practical experience in play production produc-tion and in amateur play writing. The course in play production will give instruction m stage mechanics, stage business, make-up and costuming , to enable the student to assist in amateur ama-teur dramatics and to direct such pro-i pro-i ductions. Simple plays will be rehearsed re-hearsed and produced, the students taking tak-ing the entire responsibility of tho jer-formance. jer-formance. Professor Babcock, who gives this course, has had wide and successful ex- j gerience in amateur play production. .er work with the students of the University Uni-versity Dramatic club has won the admiration admi-ration of competent critics year after j year. Tho out-of-door performance of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream" given i last June has not often been surpassed I even by professional companies.