AutobiographicThtr: Perf Lives

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course explores creative approaches to forging live performance born from autobiography. Students will write, direct, and act in autobiographically-based short performances built on their own narratives, those of their peers, and extant personal histories. Students will engage with a range of dramatic material that harnesses first-person narrative as a theatrical engine, including the work of acclaimed playwrights, verbatim/documentary theatre works, and community-based performance models. Students will fulfill readings, writing assignments, interview projects, reflection papers, and performance projects. Suitable for students with considerable performance experience and for complete beginners. The course culminates in a showing of short, original autobiographical theatre works created and honed over the course of the semester.