Dramatists

♪ [music playing--no dialogue] ♪♪. (Jasmin Stareich). "The Alpha Male Through Hip-Hop Culture" by John Naret. Okay, an ideology can be powerful. The idea of race and power has been...

The titles: the home coming, the birthday party and the caretaker; these are the first three important plays, the dumb waiter followed. What do these plays suggest? What do these titles suggest?...

Good afternoon. So, today's class is all about drama in the beginning and we are basically going to focus on theater in ancient Greece and ancient Rome. So, you might recall that we have...

Good morning. So, we continue with Girish Karnad’s play Nagamandala, a play which he wrote in 1990. As we have been discussing so far, the play reworks some of our legends and myths; also its...

Alright, quick math question: If you’re auditioning for a show, and you’re asked to prepare two monologues, how many characters are going to the audition? If you answered three, that was the correct...

Welcome to Spread the Love. This week I'm talking about Pressure, by Lindsay Price. All high school students, all teenagers, all human beings face pressures of one kind or another. Penny is...

Poetics by Aristotle PREFACE In the tenth book of the Republic, when Plato has completed his final burning denunciation of Poetry, the false Siren, the imitator of things which themselves are shadows,...

Gorgias by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION In several of the dialogues of Plato, doubts have arisen among his interpreters as to which of the various subjects discussed in them is the...

So I'd just moved to New York and I got the chance to see Michael John Garces in a solo piece called "agua ardiente". I didn't really have any experience in anything...

Welcome to the Journey of a Play. And what you are looking at here is the literal, the actual, journey of a play. That play being of course, SOMEWHERE, NOWHERE. From the very first scribbles, first...