Playwriting

Playwriting is an Interdisciplinary Arts course taught by Ellen Donkin.

This course satisfies Division I requirements.

Course Description
Our work in this course will be more or less equally divided between reading plays and writing a one-act. The plays we read, which will include a wide variety of playwrights, will inform our exercise work even as they deepen and extend our sense of drama as a form. We will be paying particular attention to the way character is revealed through dialogue, ways to unfold exposition, segmentation of dramatic action, and how dialogue is shaped by character activity. This course is designed for students who have not yet filed their Division II.

Learning Goals

 * Expressive
 * Multi-Cultural
 * Presenting
 * Reading