Performing Memory on the Contemporary Stage

(2 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course examines how memory is represented and dissected through Anglophone dramaturgies from the second half of the 20th century, exploring the role of individual or collective memory within an Anglophone corpus. Includes works by Samuel Beckett, Suzan Lori Parks, Anna Deavere Smith, and from the companies Headlong and Complicite. It dives into postmodernist and postcolonial issues relevant to contemporary theatre.