Contemporary Feminist Play/s

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course investigates the plays, poetics, and politics of a diverse array of feminist plays and their playwrights who are influential today. Students will develop fluency in larger questions about gender, representation, and reception, as well as dynamic, even contested, relationships between performance, social imaginaries, culture and identity. The plays and playwrights engage diverse cultural, sex/gender. racial, artistic, geographic and social concerns, and in so doing challenge and diversify our understanding of 'women's writing,' 'America,' gender and the role/s of theater today. This seminar aims to engage intermediate and advanced students of TPST, Comp Lit, Women & Gender Studies, English, and American Studies, among other fields. Scholars, artists, and play-lovers are welcome.