Multicultural Playwrights

Catalog description

Students explore major cultures and sub-cultures through the use of offerings from multiple playwrights of varying racial/ethnic backgrounds and alternative lifestyles and beliefs. As a means for a deeper understanding of the cultures, students explore these plays while developing script analysis skills, sharpen skills needed to effectively workshop any given script, explore the social relevance of multi-cultural playwrights and gain a deeper understanding of the power of performance theatre in bringing the larger community to awareness and empathy of variety of cultures.