Special Course Descriptions
Drama
DRA 394 10 COSTUME DESIGN
Prof. Rubin
Students learn how to visually express the nature of a specific character,
how that character relates to the world of the play, how costumes can
express what a play means, and how costumes for an entire production can
create a unity of style among all the costume designs as well as relate to
the scenery and lighting of a production. The course will include
designing costumes for a number of plays from various periods in order to
learn how to do research, draw and paint designs on paper, present designs
for a production, and make a costume plot.
DRA/GEN/AMS 494 10 SpTp: Girls on Top:Plays by Wm
Prof. Maloney
In 1910, Rachel Crothers wrote a play that forced the issue of a single
standard of morality for women and men onto the public stage. Within a
year, a prominent male playwright felt compelled to rush a rebuttal onto
the stage, attempting to validate the traditional and .natural. order of
male supremacy, and to prove once and for all that this is indeed .A
Man.s World.. Crothers.s was the better play and the better argument. In
the decades that followed, an impressive list of women playwrights took
up the charge, challenging every aspect of male dominated American
theatre. The focus of this course is on twelve of those American women
playwrights. Reading includes plays, critical analyses, and critical
biographies. Course assignments are three five-page papers and one
in-class presentation.