TAPS 10400 - Staging Family

Institution:

University of Chicago

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Description:

This course uses the terrain of the family to explore possibilities of staging pairing classical and contemporary texts in conversations with each other using both dramaturgical and theoretical texts to facilitate this dialogue. From Medea to Martha, Lear to Lohman, Oedipus to Ed TV, familial constellations have provided casts and characters and fuelled plots, yet "family" as we have come to recognize it is a twentieth-century construct. The father of Shakespeare occupies an entirely different position that the father of Miller. How do historical contexts impact our readings of relationships How can critical analysis through staging undermine this nostalgia How can analysis itself be a performative practice and performance serve as a critical endeavor Through critical discussion, analytic writings, and stagings, we begin mapping this territory . H. Coleman. Autumn.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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