| Course ID: | THEA 2110E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Voices of Diversity in American Drama and Theatre |
Course
Description: | Survey of dramatic literature that foregrounds issues of race, gender, culture, and/or ethnicity. Emphasis is placed on African American, Asian American, Latino/Latina, and Native American drama and theatre. The origin and development of these theatre movements are contextualized within the social and cultural milieu of the times. |
| Oasis Title: | Voices of Diversity |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in THEA 2110 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | This is a lecture/discussion course with extensive readings of
selected plays, supplemented by media resources illustrating the
extent of activity of these communities throughout the USA.
Students will be exposed to a wide variety of works authored by
key men and women, performed by actresses and actors in various
venues from Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off-Broadway, as
well as in regional theatres, colleges, and universities. This
is
a rich indication of the multifaceted expression of all the
cultures under consideration. |
| Topical Outline: | Week One Introduction and Historical Overview of American
Drama and Theatre
Week Two African American Theatre History and Development
Week Three Plays: Charles Gordone’s No Place to be Somebody,
George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum, and August Wilson’s Joe
Turner’s Come and Gone
Week Four Plays: Alice Childress’ Wedding Band: A love/hate
story in black and white and Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls
Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
Week Five Latino/Latina Theatre History and Development
Week Six Plays: Luis Valdez’ Zoot Suit, Jose Rivera’s The
House of Ramon Iglesia
Week Seven Plays: Milcha Sanchez-Scott’s Roosters and Nilo
Cruz’ Anna in the Tropics
Week Eight Asian American Theatre History and Development
Week Nine Plays: Frank Chin’s The Chickencoop Chinaman, David
Henry Hwang’s M Butterfly
Week Ten Plays: Wakako Yamauchi’s And the Soul Shall Dance
and Philip Kan Gotanda’s Yankee Dawg You Die
Week Eleven Plays: Anuvab Pal’s Chaos Theory, Aasif Mandvi’s
Sakina’s Restaurant, and Shishir Kurup’s Merchant on Venice
Week Twelve Selected Plays by Filipino and Vietnamese Authors
Week Thirteen Native American Theatre History and Development
Week Fourteen Selected Plays by Native American Playwrights
Week Fifteen Research and Writing Projects and Conclusions |