CAS 217 - Plays in Production

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The course examines theatrical performance holistically: plays in production. The course explores not only what a play means but how a play makes meaning and communicates that meaning to an audience embedded in a specific historical or contemporary cultural context. The course charts the differences in artistic practices of the playwright, producer, actor, director and designer through dominant periods of theatrical innovation and technology, and cultural developments. Not offered 2017-2018.