(Cross listed with COMMUN 3570 and THEATR 3200)

This course integrates essential elements of Literature and Performance and explores the dynamic relationship between the two through the interaction of conventional literary analysis and practical elements of rehearsal and live performance. Using performance as medium, this course aims to approach texts from different angles and in ways that may transcend what is characteristic of Literature and of Performance as separate fields of study.
 
Our work together over the semester intends to help students to:
 
• Develop an awareness of how the performance process may benefit other areas of their life.
• Gain an appreciation for oral interpretation as an enduring and expressive human art 
form. 
• Demonstrate progress and achievement in physical and vocal performance techniques. 
• Decide on a specific approach to a scripted text and apply this approach to create a live
performance. 
• Evaluate the merits of and make recommendations to strengthen a given performance (both the student’s and peers’) using self-reflections and written feedback. 
• Propose conclusions about the world of a given text, based on text analysis.