Interdisciplinary Arts 0275 - Making Documentary Theatre

Making Documentary Theatre is a course in which participants will practice the building blocks of making theatre from historical events and real people. We will learn to conceive projects, gather information through techniques of primary interviews and various forms of research, and examine dramatic structure in its relationship to the content. We will work with verbatim text to explore staging methods for non-dramatic, and also construct narrative through playwriting and ensemble created methods. We will also consider the ethical issues in making work from real people's lives, and examine the ways in which the truth manifests and is manipulated in theatrical form.

Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives In this course, students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time. This time includes reading, writing, research.