DRAMA 718

Playwriting

Please note: this is archived course information from 2019 for DRAMA 718.

A series of exercises in the basic building blocks of dramatic writing, incorporating guest visits from practising and established dramatists.

Not taught in 2019

Course Reader

Maria Irene Fornes, "The Successful Life of 3" in Promenade and Other Plays

Jean Genet, "The Maids", in Jean Genet and Jean-Paul Sartre The Maids and Deathwatch: 2 Plays

Timberlake Wertenbaker, "For the Love of the Nightingale" in Timberlake Wertenbaker: Plays 1

Suzan Lori-Parks, "In the Blood"

Edward Albee, "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf"

David Greig, "The Events"

Erik Ehn, "Thistle" in Soulographie

DRAMA 718: 30 points

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