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Costume Shop
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Scene Shop
Blackbox Studio Theater
Rehearsal Space
Theater Lobby
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Housed in its own wing of the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, one of the Twin Cities' finest performing-arts complexes, the department has two professional-caliber theaters, each designed by noted theater consultant George C. Izenour. Each year more than 250 students perform in the Macalester Theater, the college's Main Stage, which seats an audience of 262 in a unique space with a full-fly 24-line counterweight system, a grid of 60 feet, and the flexibility to convert to proscenium, thrust and arena formats. The Studio Theater, a "black box" that seats up to 100, houses experimental productions. A two-story scene shop, costume shop, dressing rooms, dance studio, rehearsal and storage areas, offices, classrooms, and Green Room complete the theatrical facilities.
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This collection is the result of forty-odd years of teaching Theatre at Macalester College and other liberal arts institutions.
The strengths of the library are its collection of play scripts from ancient Greek and Roman dramatists to European, Arab, American, and Canadian playwrights; books on acting, movement, directing, and design; and early issues of TDR: The Drama Review, the theatre journal which chronicles the exciting avant-garde movement of the 1960s and ‘70s.
As you scan the shelves, you will notice there are some significant omissions. That’s because there are certain playwrights, such as the Greeks, Molière, Ibsen, Beckett, Churchill, Duras, as well as modern playwrights from Africa and Asia, etc., that I wasn’t ready to part with as yet and have been retained in my personal library. Another omission is my collection of books on masks and mask training. These, too, will eventually join the collection.
In two file cabinets are important play scripts, articles, and handouts on the little know subject of pre-conquest indigenous theatrical activity in the Americas; the traditional and modern theatre of Africa; and the traditional and modern theatres of India, China, and Japan. The latter were used in one of my favorite courses to teach: “Asian Theatres: Tradition, Continuity, and Change.” Many of these materials are rare or out of print. The major archive of Asian Theatre materials is still in my personal collection.
I hope you find this library a useful resource.
Sears A. Eldredge
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