Sexuality and Power on Stage
Sexuality and Power on Stage: Female Trouble, Closet Homos, and Shameless Queers What do Sophie Treadwell's Machinal, Martin Sherman's Bent, and Tony Kushner’s Angels in America teach us about the history of sexual marginalization? In this seminar we will study a selection of US American plays in which gender, desire, and sexuality constitute a problem for society and the state. Students will learn how to analyze dramatic texts from the director’s and the actor’s perspectives with a focus on action, structure, characterization, and space in addition to genre and larger themes. Cinematic renderings of the plays and in-class staging exercises will help us engage the embodied dimension of performance
Sexuality and Power on Stage: Female Trouble, Closet Homos, and Shameless Queers What do Sophie Treadwell's Machinal, Martin Sherman's Bent, and Tony Kushner’s Angels in America teach us about the history of sexual marginalization? In this seminar we will study a selection of US American plays in which gender, desire, and sexuality constitute a problem for society and the state. Students will learn how to analyze dramatic texts from the director’s and the actor’s perspectives with a focus on action, structure, characterization, and space in addition to genre and larger themes. Cinematic render …Read more
It was a fun first year seminar. Claudio was a little tough but ultimately fair. He let us revise our papers and only graded us on our revised version, so that was really nice. Ultimately a manageable and fun course.