Development of the professional theater in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Reading and analysis of plays in their theatrical and cultural contexts. Meets Junior Year writing requirement. Prerequisite: THEATER 120.

Advanced production assignments as stage manager, house manager, designer, or crew chief for major department productions. Credit by approved contract only. May be repeated for credit.

In this course, we will examine theatrical works and the social and political contexts of Asian American theater-makers in the US. Weaving in mediums such as film, poetry, fiction, visual art, and scholarship, we will look at issues of race and gender as social constructs that Asian Americans are not only subject to, but also continuously challenge through cultural production. This is a dramaturgy course that requires students to engage with the theatrical texts within various artistic and theoretical frameworks.

Performance + Research Studio is a practicum class with two purposes. First, students will strengthen and develop their performance skills with the goal of building an ensemble. Students will also conduct on-going research on the process of staging historical documents as source material. Each three-hour session will involve games, physical theater and improvisation related to script development.

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Devised Theater is a term for performance work created collectively by an ensemble and that often addresses social, political or humanitarian issues. Brown Paper Studio was developed in post-apartheid South Africa to express young people's vision for their newly democratic country. The process combines original and selected text, music, movement, visual media and improvisation in a creative style similar to sampling in hip-hop.

Training of the actor's voice using a progression of psycho-physical exercises developed by Kristin Linklater. Emphasis on freeing the body and voice from habitual tensions and patterns. Prerequisites: THEATER 140, consent of instructor.

Participation in department productions; principally for actors, and for other assignments by permission. Credit by approved contract only. Credit awarded in semester following that in which assignment is completed. May be repeated for credit.

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