Theatre 313 - MASTERS & MOVEMENTS IN DRAMA

Topics course. This course will focus on the array of feminist perspectives and voices that we have experienced among several generations of feminist playwrights writing in English around the globe, numbers of whom have been honored as finalists and winners of the International Susan Smith Blackburn Playwrights Prize. Playwrights whose scripts will be studied and interrelated include: Alice Childress, Marie-Irene Fornes, Caryl Churchill, Wendy Wasserstein, Judith Thompson, Susan Yankowitz, Sharon Pollock, Louise Page, Marina Carr, Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, Joanna Murray-Smith, Sarah Ruhl, and Lucy Kirkwood.

Topic: Sequential Decades of Feminist Drama in English from the 1960s to the Present.