Dramaturgy Practicum

Course Description

Dramaturgy Practicum is a variable credit course (1-3) that trains theatre students in the practices of dramaturgy for production. Students may be paired with a particular School of Theatre production or project as an in-rehearsal dramaturg. Others will be assigned to dramaturgy teams or will complete particular dramaturgy tasks. These can include keeping group-sourced or single-authored blogs; posting to social media; taking and sharing photos and videos of the design process; interviewing artists in production; writing program notes; making lobby installations; hosting talkbacks with performers, audiences, and designers. Students might instead be assigned to a research or archiving project with the School of Theatre in order to learn theatre archiving skills. The 3-credit option is only open to students who have taken THEA 211 - Dramaturgy. These students will take on a major project, most typically the role of production dramaturg for a School of Theatre production or other major project. For the 1-credit option, students will either work on a dramaturgy team, or else they will focus on one kind of dramaturgy practice for several productions, such as production photography, social media posting, talkbacks, program notes, or outreach events.

Code

THEA 411

Credits

1-3

Subject

THEA