Since Black Playwrights played a significant and dynamic role in the 1960's Black Arts Movement, C09-1 provides an exciting opportunity to examine the political, historical and artistic implications of plays written during the Black Cultural revolution. Three performances by each student. A journal which the student records personal accounts of reactions to course material and related experiences. The central goal of the course is to study narrative fiction through performance. A combination of performances and analytical essays, plus a mandatory final exam.
Students are responsible for actively participating in all aspects of class activity.
Attendance is mandatory. The End of the Road. Maud Martha and selected poems. We Have Always Lived in the Castle. The purpose of this course is to explore the nature and function of theatrical convention, presentational mode, and conscious artifice in the performance of dramatic literature and fiction.