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  • DRAM 305a: The Director's Art

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    An investigation into the actor/director collaboration. Through the exploration of Chekhov plays, students acquire a rehearsal vocabulary and develop rehearsal strategies while working on several projects during in-class exercises. A final project is developed outside of class. Mr. Grabowski. Prerequisites: Drama 202 or 203, 302 or 304, and permission of the instructor. Two 2-hour periods. Not offered in 2008/09.
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  • DRAM 306a: or b.The Art of Acting:Comedy

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    Advanced study of comic acting styles including clowning, Commedia Dell'arte, Restoration, High Comedy and Absurdism. The work of Lecoq, Suzuki, Wilde, Coward, Ionesco, Beckett and Callow are explored. Prerequisites: Drama 203, 205, 1 unit in dance or movement analysis, and permission of the instructor. Two 2-hour periods. Not offered in 2008/09.
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  • DRAM 317a: Dramatic Writing

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    (Same as Film 317) Studies of dramatic construction, analysis of, and practice in writing stage plays and/or screenplays. Mr. Steerman. Note: students wishing to be considered for admission must submit a short writing sample (dramatic, narrative, poetic) at least ten days prior to preregistration. Prerequisites: Drama 100 or Film 210 and permission of the instructor. Open only to juniors and seniors. One 2-hour period.
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  • DRAM 324b: European and American Drama

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    Historical and critical study of European and American dramatic literature, theory and criticism, playwrights, and/or aesthetic movements. Topic: Shakespeare in production. Students study the physical circumstances of Elizabethan public and private theatres at the beginning of the semester. The remainder of the semester is spent studying the plays of Shakespeare and a few of his contemporaries using original staging practices of the early modern theatre. The course emphasizes the conditions under which the plays were written and performed and uses practice as an experiential tool to critically analyze the texts as performance scripts. Ms. Walen. Prerequisites: Drama 221/222 or permission of the instructor. One 3-hour period.
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  • DRAM 335a: Seminar in Western Theater and Drama:"Serious Play:Female

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    Authorship as Drama" The course focuses on the study of works by Adrienne Kennedy, Irene Fornes, Dacia Maraini, Caryl Churchill, Marguerite Duras, Karen Finley, and Sarah Kane. We explore the performativity of female authorship through the study of plays, critical essays, letters and biographies. Weekly assignments include performative writing, and performance labs. Ms. Cody. Prerequisites: Drama 102, 221,222 and permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period.
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  • DRAM 336a: Seminar in Performance Studies:Modern and Postmodern

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    Theatrical Practice Selected topics in Western and non-Western performance traditions and literatures. Weekly assignments will include performative writing, and performance labs. Topic for 2008/09: This course explores Artaud's essays, poems, plays, films, radio texts, drawings and letters, and the ways in which his radical proposals inform performance traditions of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In particular, we focus on the notions of trauma and terror as central cultural and historical forces shaping the subjectivities of the body in work by Tadeusz Kantor, John Cage, Robert Kaprow, Augusto Boal, Robert Wilson, Carolee Schneeman, Meredith Monk, Tatsumi Hijikata, Min Tanaka, Richard Schechner, Ann Hamilton, and Susanne Lacy. Ms. Cody. Prerequisites: Drama 221-222 and permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period.
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  • DRAM 337b: Seminar in Para-theater

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    An examination of para-theatrical genres and their relation to performance. Readings cover street theatre, demonstrations, stand-up comedy, circus arts, dance, performance art, mediatized performance and theories of liveness as well as the performativity of race, class and gender. Ms. Walen. Prerequisites: Drama 221-222 and permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period. Not offered in 2008/09.
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  • DRAM 361: Chinese and Japanese Drama and Theatre

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    (Same as Chinese and Japanese 361). Mr. Du. Prerequisite: one 200-level course in language, literature, culture, drama, or Asian Studies, or permission of the instructor.
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  • DRAM 382b: Acting for the Camera

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    Techniques of acting and writing for the camera. Special emphasis placed on collective class project. Instructor to be announced. Prerequisites: Drama 102, 203 and permission of the instructor. One 3-hour period.
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  • DRAM 389a: Ideas of History in Contemporary American Drama

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    (same as American Culture 389)A wave of American dramatists writing today are dedicated to exploring history. Their work suggests that historical understanding and awareness is vital to our present day survival.In this course, we explore how various playwrights negotiate history and ideas of history in their drama. What does it mean to write about history What are the different tensions and anxieties that writers encounter when dealing with history How might the American stage and the theatrical imagination be used as a laboratory to examine, weigh, and measure history and ideas of history What might we gain by viewing the playwright as historian and historiographer as well as critic and artist This course focuses heavily on, but not be limited to, American dramatists writing in the last thirty years. Play texts are integrated with historical and theoretical readings as well as essays and interviews by the playwrights themselves. Course readings include works by Thorton Wilder, Charles Fuller, Adrienne Kennedy, August Wilson, Tony Kushner, Mac Wellman, Suzan-Lori Parks, Naomi Wallace, Anna Deavere Smith, Charles Mee, Siegfried Kracauer and Peter Novick, among others.
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