What happens when a play leaves the page and enters the body?

This course treats drama not only as literature to be read, but as an event to be performed, embodied, and experienced. Combining close reading with theatrical practice, students will move between seminar and studio, learning how meaning in drama emerges through voice, gesture, space, and collaboration. Through scene work, students will learn techniques of character development, objective-setting, and interpretation. At the same time, we will examine how plays engage urgent questions of identity, ethics, and social life, including illness and care, memory and trauma, and the structures that shape human experience.

No prior acting experience is required: only a willingness to experiment, collaborate, and take creative risks.