For qualified juniors and seniors. Admission by permission of the instructor and the chair of the department. Departmental permission forms required.

Topics course. In their plays from the 1990's to the present, Pearl Cleage and other black women playwrights such as Lynn Nottage and Suzan Lori Parks declares themselves feminists and go about reinventing the narrative of America. What does a black woman feminist artist face then and now? How do these writers respond to the legacy of minstrel storytelling, the civil rights era, and the second wave of feminism?

Intermediate and advanced script projects. Prerequisite: 261. L and P.

Intermediate and advanced script projects. Prerequisite: 261. L and P.

The means and methods of the playwright and the writer for television and the cinema. Analysis of the structure and dialogue of a few selected plays. Weekly and bi-weekly exercises in writing for various media. Goal for beginning playwrights: to draft a one-act play by the end of the semester. Plays by students will be considered for staging. L and P with writing sample required, best submitted weeks prior to registration.

The means and methods of the playwright and the writer for television and the cinema. Analysis of the structure and dialogue of a few selected plays. Weekly and bi-weekly exercises in writing for various media. Goal for beginning playwrights: to draft a one-act play by the end of the semester. Plays by students will be considered for staging. L and P with writing sample required, best submitted weeks prior to registration.

The elements of line, texture and color, and their application to design and character delineation. Research of clothing styles of various cultures and eras. Enrollment limited to 15.

The course will develop overall design skills for designing sets for the theatre. After reading assigned plays, students will learn how to develop their designs by concentrating on character analysis and visualizing the action of the play. Visual research, sketches, basic drafting skills and model building are some of the areas in which students will learn to develop their ideas. This course will also emphasize the importance of collaborating with every member of the creative team. Enrollment limited to 12.

Acting II offers intensive focus on different, specific topics pertaining to acting training. THE 242 can be repeated for credit up to three times provided the content is different. Prerequisites: Acting I (THE 141) or its equivalent. This is a course in performance, focusing on poetic expression and heightened language in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. We will research, analyze, and compare selected works with particular attention to top unifying themes, rhetorical strategies, and historical perspectives, attempting to understand the requisites of performance.

Intensive study of selected plays and film from the U.S., Israel and the Jewish diaspora, examining the ways in which Jewish identity is rendered on stage. Particular focus is given to texts by Jewish authors, and their treatment of issues of authenticity and identity. We draw on texts which challenge or interrogate prevailing intragroup definitions, as well as those which offer positive and reinforcing viewpoints.