THTR 296 - Spring-Term Topics in Performing Arts

FDR: HA
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring

Prerequisite: Three credits in theater or instructor consent. Selected studies in theater, film or dance with a focus on history, criticism, performance or production. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

Spring 2014 topic:

THTR 296-01: Contemporary American Playwrights: Text and Performance (4). This course leads students through some of the major plays written in the United States in the last thirty years. Plays by men, women, people of color, gay writers, immigrants, urban dwellers, rural playwrights, Southern playwrights, poets, political activists, screenwriters, experimental artists and solo performers, are selected with an eye toward demonstrating the diverse perspectives that mark American theater and drama today. Attention is paid to works that have achieved a level of popular success on stage as well as critical acclaim in the academy or mainstream theater, or at least have attracted political or artistic controversy. (HA) Jew.