FYSM 207 - Tradition and Talent:Suzan-Lori Parks

Institution:

Trinity College

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How does a career develop Is it due to talent Luck The books one reads in college We will investigate the career of a contemporary writer, (playwright, screenplay writer, novelist), from her obscure post-modern first play that was produced in a bar in the Bowery to the modernist play on Broadway that won her a Pulitzer. Along with the complete body of works by Suzan-Lori Parks, we will read some of the plays and novels that clearly influenced her (Shakespeare, Beckett, Hawthorne, and Faulkner). Trinity College will be producing a week's worth of Parks' 365 Days 365 Plays and we will follow that production, if not also insert ourselves into it. Finally, we will partner with Hartbeat, a theatrical company based in Hartford, who will be in the process of developing a work on poverty in the city to be produced in the spring. Both of these experiences will ground our theoretical questions about tradition, talent, and creation in concrete practice. 1.00 units, Seminar

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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