Theater is a symbolic social space, enacting both the community that unites us and the divisions that keep us apart. This interdisciplinary course considers the power of the stage by focusing on the elements and contexts of symbolic actions, crossing the lines usually drawn between theater, performance art, and performative acts in culture and everyday life. The course adopts the perspective of directors, actors, and designers as they develop their own approaches to theater and performance, drawing upon sociology, anthropology, semiotics, and modern theatrical performance theory.
OBJECTIVES:
By the time you complete this course, you should be able to:
• Develop a critique of a theatrical performance, based on established aesthetic standards and your own ideas about the goals of performance
• Identify the distinguishing characteristics of theater and performance art, and consider them in historical, social and cultural context
• Analyze a playscript according to the model of directors’ and actors’ work in developing a theatrical production
• Compare theories of theater historically--from traditional western drama, non-western performance models, and avant-garde theater of the past century
• Analyze rituals in light of fundamental principles of anthropology, sociology and performance theory
• Identify and analyze aspects of performance in everyday life
• Characterize how performance theory affects and influences other forms of art and ideas about culture, politics and society
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