University of Calgary
School of Creative and Performing Arts
DRAM 455.2 - Advanced Topics in Canadian Theatre and Drama (Political Theatre) - Winter 2020
Advanced studies in Canadian Drama. Areas of study may include historical and/or performance movements, critical schools, and the development of theatre companies and professional associations in Canada.
This course may be repeated for credit.
This course may be repeated for credit.
Hours
- H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s)
- Drama 355.
Antirequisite(s)
- Credit for Drama 455 and 357 will not be allowed.
Sections
LEC 1 TR 14:00 - 15:15 CHE 012 Outline Notes: The course text will be a revised version of Arthur Milner¿s Political Theatre, Modernist Marxism, and the Avant-Garde (Master¿s Thesis, Carleton University 2002). In addition, students will be expected to read 20 plays and 5 essays. The course will review different approaches to political theatre, including realism and naturalism; Expressionism, Surrealism, Absurdism, agitprop, Epic Theatre, Theatre of Cruelty; and a variety of more modern approaches, including Forum, collective, site specific, immersive, and devised theatre.
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