Course Description: A workshop on how to develop performance scripts from myths, short stories, novels and autobiographical fiction. In this course we will read original texts and adaptations by master adapters to study the building blocks of adaption and to experience breadth of approaches to transforming literature into stage plays. Students will be expected to script their own adaptations inspired by this study and to be active members of the laboratory environment in class workshopping those scripts.
Course Goals/Student Learning Outcomes:
- to learn the building blocks of theatrical adaptation textually and theatrically
- to understand differences and commonalities between prose text and theatrical text and learn the best practices to transform from one to the other
- to study the work of master adapters textually and in performance to understand individual style within the adaptation and production process
- to create adaptations of one’s own; to learn by doing.
Course Goals/Student Learning Outcomes:
- to learn the building blocks of theatrical adaptation textually and theatrically
- to understand differences and commonalities between prose text and theatrical text and learn the best practices to transform from one to the other
- to study the work of master adapters textually and in performance to understand individual style within the adaptation and production process
- to create adaptations of one’s own; to learn by doing.
- Teacher: Rachel Dickstein