Intersections: Theater Artists and Scholars

Catalog description

Focuses on the study and production of theater through the lenses of acting, directing, and theater studies. A mix of scholarly research and embodied practice, the course dives into play analysis through reading, discussion, research, writing, and performance projects. In exploring three plays, students create a research notebook, write an introduction to the play that might appear in a program, and participate in a short scene from the play. Finally, students research and write a piece of theatre scholarship on one of the three plays, with the goal of understanding how scholars carry out their investigations.