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As a part of its three-fold mission, the Institute is helping to facilitate drama courses
(There are no performance-oriented Theatre Departments in Mainland Universities at
present) as part of a more fully rounded liberal arts education in Chinese Universities.
To that end the following courses and seminars, designed and most often taught by
Joseph Graves, have been offered to PKU students and faculty, as well as those from
more than a dozen other Chinese Universities, over the last four years. The Institute
wishes to express its profound debt to the English Department as well as The School of
Foreign Languages of Peking University, without whose help and assistance in
innumerable ways these courses would have not been possible.
COURSES
Shakespeare in Performance
Western Drama in Performance
American Drama
The Fundamentals of Theatre Acting
The Fundamentals of Theatre Directing
*The Fundamentals of Playwriting
The Fundamentals of Screen Writing
Scene Study and Performance
Drama in Spoken English
These courses, or their like, have been ongoing at PKU since the fall of 2002 and have
been taken by hundreds of Beida students and professors, over two dozen of whom
have gone abroad to pursue MFA's in Theatre Arts with the idea of returning to China to
continue the work of making theatre arts a part of the curriculum in Chinese higher
education. As often as is possible students of the acting and directing classes are
given the opportunity to perform or work on professional production interacting with
professional actors/directors from both China and the West.
*In the spring of 2008, six original one act plays, written in English by Peking University
playwriting students, will receive full scale productions under the auspices of the
Institute. This marks another first in Chinese theatre.
In summers of 2006 and 2007, The Institute offered a summer drama semester held at
Peking University and opened to students throughout China. Over one hundred fifty
students attended the last two summers and the semesters culminated in those
students performing for their first time 20 minute scenes from a variety of different
Western plays.
The Work through the Institute at PKU, involving students in Beijing and throughout
China, has seen over 100, 20 minute scenes staged and performed, as well as
interchanges with 4 separate American university theatre departments as well as 13
different guest lecturers, teachers and directors from both the educational and
professional theatre world in the West. This fall 2007, five PKU students will travel to
America to perform at a university there with American students in a joint production of
Shakespeare’s, The Tempest.
WORKSHOPS
As a part of the Institute's theatre education
outreach, Joseph Graves has conducted
week-long seminars/workshops on Shakespeare
in performance at the following Chinese
Universities: Peking University; University of
International Business and Economics, Beijing;
Fudan University, Shanghai; Wuhan University,
Wuhan; Tianjin University of Commerce, Tianjin;
Yunnan University, Kunming; Nanjing University,
Nanjing; Chinese University of Hong Kong;
National University of Taiwan; Soochow University,
Taiwan; Macau Polytechnic Institute, Macau; and University of Macau. As a further
educational interaction, Joseph has also taught limited courses at Beijing Film
Academy, and The Central Academy of Drama, the two training schools for professional
actors, directors and technicians in Beijing.
In the spring of 2004 Joseph Graves taught a semester long directing course to
Chinese high school teachers from Sichuan Province who were interested in using
drama as a means of creative education in their respective high schools.
In the summer of 2006, Peking University, Nanjing University, Fudan University and
Shandong University co-sponsored an 8 day seminar/workshop for Chinese university
professors interested in learning the fundamentals of play directing to use in their
teaching of dramatic literature. This seminar, lead by Joseph Grave and American
director/educator, Tom Whitaker and facilitated by Prof. Liu Haiping, president of the
Chinese National Eugene O'Neill Society and Professor at Nanjing University, was
attended by 40 college professors from as many different universities. To date, 25 of
those attendees have staged, for the first time in their respective universities, full length
plays.
CONFERENCE
In the summer of 2004, Executive Director of the Institute, Prof. Cheng Zhaoxiang, and
Artistic Director, Joseph Graves, held a week long International American Drama
Conference at Peking University which was attended by 70 Chinese drama scholars
and theatre artists, as well as 25 foreign drama educators and theatre artists. 4 full
length productions were presented, 3 professional and 1 student and the attendees
delivered papers and held discussions on a variety of theatre topics, related primarily to
further facilitating the study and practice of theatre arts in Chinese Universities as a
means of creative education
(There are no performance-oriented Theatre Departments in Mainland Universities at
present) as part of a more fully rounded liberal arts education in Chinese Universities.
To that end the following courses and seminars, designed and most often taught by
Joseph Graves, have been offered to PKU students and faculty, as well as those from
more than a dozen other Chinese Universities, over the last four years. The Institute
wishes to express its profound debt to the English Department as well as The School of
Foreign Languages of Peking University, without whose help and assistance in
innumerable ways these courses would have not been possible.
COURSES
Shakespeare in Performance
Western Drama in Performance
American Drama
The Fundamentals of Theatre Acting
The Fundamentals of Theatre Directing
*The Fundamentals of Playwriting
The Fundamentals of Screen Writing
Scene Study and Performance
Drama in Spoken English
These courses, or their like, have been ongoing at PKU since the fall of 2002 and have
been taken by hundreds of Beida students and professors, over two dozen of whom
have gone abroad to pursue MFA's in Theatre Arts with the idea of returning to China to
continue the work of making theatre arts a part of the curriculum in Chinese higher
education. As often as is possible students of the acting and directing classes are
given the opportunity to perform or work on professional production interacting with
professional actors/directors from both China and the West.
*In the spring of 2008, six original one act plays, written in English by Peking University
playwriting students, will receive full scale productions under the auspices of the
Institute. This marks another first in Chinese theatre.
In summers of 2006 and 2007, The Institute offered a summer drama semester held at
Peking University and opened to students throughout China. Over one hundred fifty
students attended the last two summers and the semesters culminated in those
students performing for their first time 20 minute scenes from a variety of different
Western plays.
The Work through the Institute at PKU, involving students in Beijing and throughout
China, has seen over 100, 20 minute scenes staged and performed, as well as
interchanges with 4 separate American university theatre departments as well as 13
different guest lecturers, teachers and directors from both the educational and
professional theatre world in the West. This fall 2007, five PKU students will travel to
America to perform at a university there with American students in a joint production of
Shakespeare’s, The Tempest.
WORKSHOPS
As a part of the Institute's theatre education
outreach, Joseph Graves has conducted
week-long seminars/workshops on Shakespeare
in performance at the following Chinese
Universities: Peking University; University of
International Business and Economics, Beijing;
Fudan University, Shanghai; Wuhan University,
Wuhan; Tianjin University of Commerce, Tianjin;
Yunnan University, Kunming; Nanjing University,
Nanjing; Chinese University of Hong Kong;
National University of Taiwan; Soochow University,
Taiwan; Macau Polytechnic Institute, Macau; and University of Macau. As a further
educational interaction, Joseph has also taught limited courses at Beijing Film
Academy, and The Central Academy of Drama, the two training schools for professional
actors, directors and technicians in Beijing.
In the spring of 2004 Joseph Graves taught a semester long directing course to
Chinese high school teachers from Sichuan Province who were interested in using
drama as a means of creative education in their respective high schools.
In the summer of 2006, Peking University, Nanjing University, Fudan University and
Shandong University co-sponsored an 8 day seminar/workshop for Chinese university
professors interested in learning the fundamentals of play directing to use in their
teaching of dramatic literature. This seminar, lead by Joseph Grave and American
director/educator, Tom Whitaker and facilitated by Prof. Liu Haiping, president of the
Chinese National Eugene O'Neill Society and Professor at Nanjing University, was
attended by 40 college professors from as many different universities. To date, 25 of
those attendees have staged, for the first time in their respective universities, full length
plays.
CONFERENCE
In the summer of 2004, Executive Director of the Institute, Prof. Cheng Zhaoxiang, and
Artistic Director, Joseph Graves, held a week long International American Drama
Conference at Peking University which was attended by 70 Chinese drama scholars
and theatre artists, as well as 25 foreign drama educators and theatre artists. 4 full
length productions were presented, 3 professional and 1 student and the attendees
delivered papers and held discussions on a variety of theatre topics, related primarily to
further facilitating the study and practice of theatre arts in Chinese Universities as a
means of creative education
