Contemporary Writing for the Theater
F06
Kathleen Dimmick
In this course, we’ll look at plays from a new generation of playwrights writing since 1990. We’ll also read recent work by writers who came of age during the period of theatrical experimentation in the 1960s. Along with current American, British, and Irish writers, we’ll read plays in translation by emerging and established French, Latin American, and German-language playwrights. Authors will include Doug Wright, Suzan-Lori Parks, Young Jean Lee, Richard Foreman, Caryl Churchill, Martin McDonagh, Jez Butterworth, Bernard Marie Koltes, Elfriede Jelinek, and Humberto Dorado, among others. Students will write two essays.