This course is built on your writing, and each building block in the development of your play must be satisfactorily created before the next can be begun. You must allow for the possibility that an assignment will have to be revised or completely rewritten several times. The only required reading for this course are two modern short plays, Zoo Story by Edward Albee and The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco. These can be purchased separately or obtained from a library, but your instructor recommends that you purchase the following book which contains these two plays as well as several other plays on your Recommended Reading list. Orders are shipped via UPS, so please include a street address.
Overseas students are encouraged to request airmail shipment.
Since changes in edition can take place, students are advised to wait and purchase texts after enrolling in the course and receiving the course study guide. Alvin Kernan, ed. Classics of the Modern Theatre . Harcourt, Brace, 1965. There are eight written assignments in this course, five of which have to do with the development of a dramatic concept into a play.