printer friendly pageDRAMA 168H: Art and Life: The Second Avant Garde (DRAMA 268H)
Experiments in the second half of the 20th century that produced new genres such as happenings and performance art, and theoretical debates that attempted to reformulate relations between art forms and their changed role in society. How these fundamentals of performance were challenged and reshaped.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
DRAMA 170B: Advanced Directing
Deconstructing and constructing. Tools for analyzing text and developing directorial concepts, and putting them into practice. Class exercises culminate in a short theater piece written and directed by the student. Prerequisite: 170A or consent of instructor.
Instructors:
Melrose, R. (PI)
;
Wooden, I. (PI)
DRAMA 171: Undergraduate Theater Workshop
Undergraduate directors present one act plays in workshop performances. Credit available for actors and directors. Prerequisite: 170A/170B or consent of instructor.
| Repeatable
for credit
DRAMA 172H: Women and Theatre in 20th-Century France
Historical tools to explore the contributions of female artists in 20th-century French theatre, emphasizing perspectives and themes that were neglected or silenced in theatre. How the aesthetics and ideology of 20th-century theatre in France were broadened due to a greater participation of women.
DRAMA 174H: The Performance of Memory: Dark Tourism
Contemporary and historical approaches to tourism at sites of trauma including WW II memorials, prisons, cemeteries, and other sites of loss. Focus is on interrogating the practice of cultural tourism as a performative act of public remembering and the de facto transformation of urban spaces into participatory public theatres of choreographed memory.
DRAMA 176P: Wasteland Practical
Creation and development of The Wasteland Project in collaboration with writers, actors, and directors.
DRAMA 179D: Imagine Freedom: Dramatizing the Undocumented (DRAMA 279D)
The docudrama (plays and films) as an art practice of political transgression. Focus is on texts in which a socially marginalized community serves as the main character of the drama. Texts include
Salt of the Earth; Chavez Ravine by Culture Clash; Canadian First Nation playwright Marie Clements¿
The Unnatural and Accidental Women; and Doris Pilkington Garimara¿s
Rabbit Proof Fence. Script analysis and scriptwriting.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
DRAMA 181Q: The Bacchae: Euripides, Akalaitis, Glass
Preference to sophomores who have taken
IHUM 25A,B. Workshop and Stanford residency of JoAnne Akalaitis's production of Euripedes'
The Bacchae. Euripides, and the context and production history of the play. The use of Philip Glass's music in the production. Rehearsals and the workshop production.
DRAMA 186Q: The Emergence of the Director
Preference to sophomores. The role of the director as it emerged in the late 19th century together with modern theater. Those who established the paradigm of the new profession including Antoine, Stanislavski, Eisenstein, and Brecht; their writings, stagings, and documentation.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
DRAMA 204: Creating Lighting and Sound in Performance
Concepts of lighting and sound in addressing storytelling in performative projects.
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