The links below are potentially useful references for Introduction to Theatre.

Along with general interest, the following links are designed to be helpful research material for your various writing projects.

If you like Theat160: Intro. to Theatre, then you'll love Theat145: Contempoary World Theatre. The course has a complete web site, including a several discussions boards, and the overall structure of the course is similar to what you are experiencing in Theat145.

Here's help for when you instinctively know a particular image is being used in a symbolic way, but you're not quite sure what the full implications of the symbol happen to be. We will spend a lot of time in this class discussing symbolism, so here's a great research tool to get to know. This is by no means as comprehensive a research tool as Cirlot's A Dictionary of Symbols, but it's a good place to start.

About as exciting as watching paint dry, but absolutely essential if you care at all about proper footnote form for electronic citations.

The character Song from M. Butterfly is a Peking Opera Singer. This well designed site (in English and with stunning visuals), will give you a great feel for what their productions look like.

The play The Ik is adapted by Colin Higgins and Dennis Cannan from the book The Mountain People by Colin Turnbull. Here's a chance to see the cover of the book and read excerpts from this fascinating anthropological study.

Production Photographs of plays I have directed at W.S.U.