International theater is 'unique'
By JUDY JARRELL Kansan Staff Writer
The International Theatre Studies Center at the University of Kansas is "the only one in the world like it," said Frederic M. Litto, speech and drama professor and associate director of the program.
"Drama is a universal art and its study should not be limited to the Western world," Littro explained.
The International Theatre was created early in 1968 after two years of faculty planning. Director of the program is Kenneth S. White, French and Italian associate professor.
"It unifies the academic and artistic strengths of the University in order to develop new perspectives in humanistic inquiry comparable to those of an area studies program: the cross-cultural understanding of a universal art." Litto said.
The center rectifies the split between literary and artistic approaches to dramatic art caused by the separation of departments of literature and those of theatre arts.
As an interdisciplinary
program, the International Theatre studies are designed to:
- Enable students to gain insight into the theater of other nations.
- Encourage students to work in the native languages of one or more theatrical traditions.
- Focus the energies of various academic disciplines on the study of theater and drama.
"The master's program at the center is better known outside KU than it is here." Litto said.
The student designs his own curriculum having no prescribed courses. Any undergraduate major is acceptable as long as the interest is there, Litto added.
"There are over thirty professors from eight different University departments whose teaching and research specializations focus on theater." Litto explained.
Working cooperatively, these resources represent teaching and research on the theater of Italy France, Great Britain, Spain Scandinavia, the United States Latin America, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Japan Africa, and Classical Greece and Rome.
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Also, Litto said, the first course in Nigerian drama ever taught in the United States was offered here last fall.
Interdisciplinary seminars in theater and drama are offered by the Center each semester to complement regular course work in the various University departments, Litto continued.
"This semester professors from the departments of French, anthropology, and linguistics are joining efforts in a course titled Structuralism and Drama."
In recent years foreign artists have appeared on stage or taught theater classes at KU. They would be less likely to come if there were no Center, Litto said.
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at least three foreign plays a year representing each language department.
"Now we are planning an exchange with the University of Colorado for the next three years," Litto said.
This spring KU will take two Japanese folk plays to Colorado in March. Next spring Colorado will bring a Chinese Peking opera here.
The third year, the two companies will tour Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma, Litto added.
The center also has been invited to be the U.S. base for a summer institute in Chinese theater beginning in 1970. The trip will be sponsored by the Centre of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong.
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