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Aristocles (known to us as "Plato") lived and wrote in Athens in the 5th c. BCE. More than 2400 years later, Alfred North Whitehead’s famous remark still resonates: “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato…the wealth of general ideas scattered through them…have
It is 416 BCE. A group of Athenian men are gathered together for a party, a celebration, a symposium. Among the company are the tragic playwright Agathon, Agathon’s lover Pausanias, the beautiful but doomed Phaedrus, the comic playwright Aristophanes, the doctor Eryximachus, and the (also perhaps doomed) philosopher Socrates. Diotima, a priestess from Mantinea, puts in a
In this advanced class, we will read and write plays about plays (or in which a play or performance is essential to the plot). Readings will likely include Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Seagull, Jackie Sibblies Drury's We Are Proud to Present, Anne Washburn's 10 out of 12 and Mr. Burns, Alice
If you want to learn playwriting, you should write a lot, write quickly, and write inspired by great plays. Think of this class as your weekly playwriting workout.
Each week, students will be assigned 1-2 contemporary plays to read, drawing from work recently seen or soon-to-be-seen Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway. We will spend the first
