Introduction to Theatrical Contexts and Research (160-2-24)

Topic

Site-Specific Performance

Instructors

Sarah Marks Mininsohn

Meeting Info

Wirtz 240 Seminar Room: Tues, Thurs 12:30PM - 1:50PM

Overview of class

This course will center performances staged "off-stage," beyond the indoor proscenium theatre. We will examine works across multiple genres of site-specific performance, all of which interact uniquely with their locations and connect to broader interconnected social and environmental concerns. Through interaction with site, these stagings offer possibilities for rethinking the relationship between the ‘human' and ‘environmental.'

This class equips students with critical modes of thinking about theatre as an academic discipline and practice. It features a range of analytical skills and critical approaches for play and performance analysis, incorporating aspects of theatre history, historiography, and performance theory. Through class discussions, readings, study of plays and performances, creative responses, and written assignments, students will develop their analytical skills and learn to craft research papers in a guided process.

Registration Requirements

First-year Theatre majors, attend at 1st class mandatory

Class Attributes

SoC Humanities and Fine Arts Distro