Performance Dimensions of Text

Catalog description

Poets Theater is an online seminar/workshop in which students will read and “rehearse”/perform the poems, scripts and scores by writers who extend the possibilities of dramatic language. Modeled as an "atelier," students will explore the relationships between the performative and the printed/textual, asking how the page serves as a blueprint for sound, video, movement, and theatrical practice. Students will write “in conversation” with assigned readings by innovators such as Augusto Boal, Adrienne Kennedy, Ntozake Shange, Richard Foreman, Douglass Kearney, Tracie Morris, Cecilia Vicuna, August Wilson, Fiona Templeton, Kevin Killian, and others. As an interdisciplinary workshop, this course invites students from all backgrounds. S/NC. Instructor's permission required. Enrollment limited to 12.