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Beat By Beat Script Interpretation: Pulitzer Version — DRA4192.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Dina Janis
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Students in this class will read a weekly selection of Pulitzer Prize winning plays and be required to analyze and explore these plays beat by beat in class discussion and weekly critical writing exercises. This is an in-depth script interpretation class in which theme, dramatic structure, arc, character development, tone, style and extensive study of the given playwrights

Drama Literature

Beat by Beat: Script Interpretation for Theatre Makers and Their Friends — DRA4254.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
Students in this class will read a selection of plays and be required to analyze and explore these plays beat by beat in class discussion and weekly critical writing exercises. This is a script interpretation class in which theme, dramatic structure and arc, character development, tone, style and extensive study of the given playwrights and their influences will be explored in
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Beckett (19x19) — MA4103.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Sue Rees
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The class will use a variety of texts of Samuel Beckett as the basis for the class. These will include the short stories, plays and radio plays.  We will watch a selection of the Beckett on Film (19 films x 19 directors) series produced by Michael Colgan and Alan Moloney.  The series includes a number of interpretations for the plays from the directors. This approach
Drama Visual Arts

Beginning Playwriting: One-Act Structures — DRA2146.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: john walch
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Emerson said: "In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed." The same is true in this course as beginning playwrights will read and write a number of one-act plays in multiple styles and genres. There will be numerous writing exercises that focus on writing short plays and monologues. The exercises will focus on specific issues of craft, form, or genre. Playwrights will
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Belarusian Dream: Human Rights and Performance — DRA4182.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
This course will be part of an international festival of short plays commemorating Belarusian Freedom Day, 25 March, the unofficial holiday invoked to express opposition to the current regime (referred to as the last dictatorship in Europe). The eight plays, four Belarusian and four international, explore human rights issues and promote social action. We will rehearse and stage
CAPA Drama

Bennington Plays — DRA4151.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
This project-based class is for directors and actors engaged in the process and techniques of analyzing, exploring, and staging (original) works of theater. “Teams” of Director Cast work in collaboration with corresponding courses for student playwrights and designers whose work has been chosen for participation in the Bennington Plays Festival. Directors will be chosen
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Bennington Plays: Design — DRA4129.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 2
This project-based class is for designers developing and implementing scenic, lighting, or costume designs for productions of new student written plays. Teams of directors and designers will work with other students in corresponding courses for playwrights, directors and actors, who are participating in the Bennington Plays Festival. In a laboratory atmosphere, we will
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Bennington Plays: Playwrights — DRA4163.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
This project-based class is for playwrights engaged in the process and techniques of rewriting and staging their plays. The majority of rewrites may happen prior to the semester, but substantial rewrites could emerge as essential during the production period. Collaborating with the director, actors, and designers will be the heart of this class. Playwrights are expected to
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Bennington Plays: Process to Performance — DRA4265.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
This course is a master class for young directors and playwrights to learn the process and techniques of analyzing, exploring, and staging (original) works of theater. Different “teams” of writer/director or director/dramaturge work on a piece of their choosing, with the running time falling somewhere between 20 – 50 minutes. In a laboratory atmosphere we will investigate how
Drama

Bertolt Brecht — LIT2341.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
This course will explore Brecht’s development of epic theater dramaturgy, at the intersection of his synthetic genius and collective inspirations. Students will learn about Brecht’s development of such techniques as Verfremdungseffekt (distancing effect), historification, gestus, and separation of the elements, while exploring his radical adaptations of
Drama Literature

Broadway Musicals and the American Dream — DRA2268.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
This course offers a chronological survey of American musical theater history, through a thematic focus on the Broadway musical’s circulations of the “American Dream.” The course examines not only changing notions of the American Dream from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, but considers contrasting definitions of the myth, as articulated through
Drama

Butoh Intensive—In search of dance of darkness — DAN4245.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Credits: 4
This advanced level intensive butoh course is designed for students, who have prior experience of making a work around a body, especially (yet not limited) in dance, theater and visual arts context. Inspired by butoh-based movement practice and eastern philosophies, students will seek a way of liberating a body from socially pre-conditioned self. While studying particular
Dance Drama

Camera and the Body: Peculiar Ways of Knowing — DAN2208.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

This course delves into the interdisciplinary art of screendance, examining the mediatization of the moving body within cinematic and site-specific contexts. By exploring the dynamic collaboration between camera, body, and environment, students will study a range of methods used by film and video artists—both historical and contemporary

Dance Drama

Character and Modern Dress — DRA2279.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
This class will examine the utilization of fashion as a tool to tell the story of a character and a script. We will possibly have the opportunity to work with "How Water Behaves" and/ or "Bellarusian Dream" as part of the class.
Drama

Characters Welcome — DRA4421.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 4
Comedy while fun is a lot of work and, unlike, the more traditional "actor's" life, it's all about self-generating material. Characters Welcome is a course designed to help you create original characters and impressions that can sharpen your comedic voice and create content that can eventually (hopefully) be monetized. While we actors toil away in the dank dark basements of
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Chekhov's World — DRA4378.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
“People are sitting at a table having dinner, that's all, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being torn apart."-Anton Chekhov In this advanced acting course, we will delve deeply into the life and plays of Anton Chekhov through research, discussion, and performance. Chekhov’s plays present an actor with both unique challenges (buried
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Child and Youth Migration: In Between Cultures — DRA2166.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Burcu Seyben
Credits: 4
Today, millions of children and young people are forced to leave their homeland, or want to move to other countries for a variety of reasons. This course will focus on the experience of these children and young people who cross borders due to war, conflict, pursuit of education, new discoveries, jobs, family, or human trafficking. The course will explore how children and young
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Choice and Consequence - Alternative History — DRA2277.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
We are our choices. -Satre Plays and films are empathic art forms that seduce us into imaginatively making choices and suffering consequences along with their characters. Every day in the real world, we watch as people make choices whose consequences are truly ours to share—some global, some local. What if we could rewrite those choices and change what happens to our lives,
Drama

Choice and Consequence: Alternative History — DRA2277.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
"The theater is the place where we learn how to be. At its best, it is a rehearsal for the great moments of our life, including our happinesses. Love, death, we see it on stage and it prepares us for our life" -John Guare A play is a metaphoric and empathic art form that seduces us into imaginatively making choices and suffering consequences along with the characters on stage.
Drama

Choice and Consequence: Alternative History — DRA2277.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
The theater is the place where we learn how to be. At its best, it is a rehearsal for the great moments of our life, including our happinesses. Love, death, we see it on stage and it prepares us for our life.” —John Guare A play is a metaphoric and empathic art form that seduces us into imaginatively making choices and suffering consequences along with the characters on stage.
Drama Literature

Choice and Consequence: Alternative History — DRA2277.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
“The theater is the place where we learn how to be. At its best, it is a rehearsal for the great moments of our life, including our happinesses. Love, death, we see it on stage and it prepares us for our life.” —John Guare A play is a metaphoric and empathic art form that seduces us into imaginatively making choices and suffering consequences along with the characters on stage.
Drama

Choice and Consequence: Alternative History — DRA2277.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
“The theater is the place where we learn how to be. At its best, it is a rehearsal for the great moments of our life, including our happinesses. Love, death, we see it on stage and it prepares us for our life.” —John Guare A play is a metaphoric and empathic art form that seduces us into imaginatively making choices and suffering consequences along with the characters on stage.
Drama

Choice and Consequence: Alternative History — DRA2277.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
“The theater is the place where we learn how to be. At its best, it is a rehearsal for the great moments of our life, including our happinesses. Love, death, we see it on stage and it prepares us for our life.” —John Guare A play is a metaphoric and empathic art form that seduces us into imaginatively making choices and suffering consequences along with the characters on stage
Drama

Choice and Consequence: Alternative History — DRA2277.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
The theater is the place where we learn how to be. At its best, it is a rehearsal for the great moments of our life, including our happinesses. Love, death, we see it on stage and it prepares us for our life.” —John Guare A play is a metaphoric and empathic art form that seduces us into imaginatively making choices and suffering consequences along with the characters on stage.
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