Drama and Dramatic Theory

This course will engage with major approaches to performance theory, and theoretical perspectives on making performance, largely in dialogue with the development of modern drama. Questions will include: ideology and performance (realism, Brecht); cognition and character (acting theory, cognitive studies); subjects and subjection; textualities; words and things; cruelty and embodiment; theatrical mediation. Plays by: Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, Chekhov, Brecht, Pinter, Beckett, Parks.