|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
1.00 Credits
This advanced playwriting class is designed to explore, critique and expand notions of theatrical realism. The curriculum will include research into the history of realism in theater/visual art, practical work in site-specific theater, and local field trips designed to investigate the "realism" of daily life. The class will also address other realities as they relate to playwriting, include virtual reality, the reality of subatomic particles and reality TV. Assignments include the creation of a site-specific performance and one new play. Submit 25 pages of a play to Lisa_Damour@brown.edu by the first class meeting to be considered for admission to the class. Instructor permission required. Prerequisites: TAPS 0100 and TAPS 0200, or equivalent related experience.
-
1.00 Credits
A course in experimental theater history, performance theory (1888-1968). This course looks at experimental forms in writing and performance as a "flash forward" from the turn of the twentieth century to the Vietnam era. Students will read plays, poetry, fiction, essays, manifestos, letters, allowing an analytical approach to our understanding of abstract of avant-garde theater and film, their impact on race, sex, society and politics, as well as aesthetic and philosophical movements. Permission to enroll will be granted based on 10 page critical/creative writing sample. Please email course instructor by the first week of class. Enrollment limited to 17 juniors, seniors, and graduate students. Instructor permission required.
-
1.00 Credits
Community performance has been used to encourage dialogue, give voice, bear witness, practice resistance, heal from traumatic events, celebrate - among many other purposes and processes. This course will explore the theories, methods, and results of community-based performance techniques and programs through a combination of study and experience. Includes a weekly seminar for discussing readings/writings, practicing the performance-making process, and exploring pedagogies, as well as a significant field work component: a collaborative performance project with a community partner, Everett Dance Theater/The Carriage House School. Enrollment limited to 17; instructor permission required and can be obtained at the first class meeting. DVPS
-
1.00 Credits
A two-semester course in experimental theater history and performance theory that looks at experimental forms allowing an analytical and critical approach to our understanding of the abstract or avant-garde milieu of performance. The emphasis of the first semester includes (but is not limited to) a study of the literature, plays and film of surrealism, Dada, German Expressionism, Futurism, Constructivism, Socialist Realism as well as post-WWII experimentation. Prerequisite: TAPS 1500D. Enrollment limited to 17 juniors, seniors, and graduate students.
-
1.00 Credits
Seminar designed primarily for senior theatre arts concentrators, required during Semester VII. Topics focus on career planning and theatre arts subjects not dealt with in other courses. Enrollment limited to 25 seniors.
-
1.00 Credits
A semester of performances/master classes featuring the work of invited guests, each a performer/practitioner in multi-media, multi-disciplinary solo performance. The instructor curates the series, moderates discussions, supervises reading lists, and assesses students. Enrollment limited to 17. Not open to first year students.
-
1.00 Credits
This course explores political theatre and performance in Latin America, the US and Canada. The primary concern will be the use of performance in indigenous rights, queer rights, and gender equity campaigns as well as general critiques of socioeconomic inequity. The course examines the strategies used by actors in theatrical performances, performance art, and political protests that use the tools of performance. Exploration is of the rich relationship between politics and performance. There are no prerequisites, but one course in either Latin American Studies or Theatre and Performance Studies is recommended.
-
1.00 Credits
Bodies come in many shapes, colors, and sizes. In performances practices, the body is an instrument sometimes used to "talk back" to the ways shapes, colors, and sizes are haunted by histories of racialization, sexual discrimination, and other biases. This class explores various feminist and race critical theories in tandem with work of performance artists, visual artists, and theatre artists.
-
1.00 Credits
Explores the intimate relationship between theatre and conquest in the Americas as contained in missionary accounts, plays, performances and visual art from Cortés arrival to the present. Students will analyze plays and performances that stage the Spanish Conquest, consider the threatrical procedures of the conquest and examine theatrical representation as a methodology of conquest in the Americas.
-
1.00 Credits
Course is designed to familiarize students with contemporary American playwriting from 2000-2005. We will explore how these plays reflect our current moment with attention to conceptions of gender, sexuality, national identity, trauma and memory. Playwrights may include Jorge Cortinas, Sarah Ruhl, Tony Kushner, Juilana Francis, Sabina Berman, and Carl Hancock Rux. WRIT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|