This graduate seminar in dramaturgy each semester goes in depth into a special topic. Topics to include: Multicultural Theater Practice, Performance Theory, Avant-Garde Theater, Production Dramaturgy, Translation, Adaptation, and Dramaturgical Writing. Please check at enrollment time to see what Special Topic is being offered for the coming semester.
- Teacher: Priscilla Page
Script analysis and development of vocal and physical performance in the building of effective stage characteriza-tions. Improvisations and scenes.
- Teacher: Judyie Al-Bilali
This 4-credit course will examine the contemporary texts and the social and political contexts of writers of color in the United States. We will look at issues of race and gender as social constructs that have historically served to exclude and oppress people of color and women. Along these lines, the playwrights and the texts that we will engage will serve as artistic commentary regarding images/stereotypes, approaches to similar themes within various communities, and the necessity for different models of both scholarship and aesthetic evaluations. (Gen. Ed. AL, DU)
- Teacher: Judyie Al-Bilali
Introduction to acting. Includes all or some of the following: improvisation, theater games, monologues, scenes. Required of majors.
- Teacher: Behnam Alibakhshi
Theater movements of Blacks, Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans, and the body of literature by contemporary playwrights of color within a historical context. (Gen.Ed. AL, DU)
- Teacher: Pedro Eler De Carvalho Eiras
Introduction to acting. Includes all or some of the following: improvisation, theater games, monologues, scenes. Required of majors.
- Teacher: Iris Sowlat
The close reading of dramatic texts for contemporary production. Focus on finding original answers to directorial, design, and dramaturgical questions. Dramatic texts selected from a broad spectrum of world repertory.
- Teacher: Christopher Baker
This course explores the art of contemporary theater and the power of live performance through a series of shows the students attend in person, along with theater projects they create in a group. Through engagement with both longstanding and new ways of making theater, students will gain exposure to how live theater is being made in the world today -- an exciting moment of new frontiers and forms. (Gen. Ed. AT)
- Teacher: Harley Erdman
Development of the professional theater in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Reading and analysis of plays in their theatrical and cultural contexts. Meets Junior Year writing requirement.
- Teacher: Harley Erdman