Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(63ΛΕ168) -  Αθανάσιος Δημάκης

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

Primary Sources (Plays):

 

Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act (1894), Oscar Wilde

The Children's Hour (1934), Lillian Hellman

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), Edward Albee

Betrayal (1978), Harold Pinter

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes:

Part I, “Millennium Approaches” (1991), Tony Kushner

Fur (1995), Migdalia Cruz

Vanya (2023) Simon Stephens

 

* Vanya: Screening of the British National Theatre Production and Invited Speakers

 

Course Description:

 

This course explores identity and sexuality in 20th-century Anglophone Theatre, examining the ways in which theatre engages with, deconstructs, challenges, and resists normative gender and sexuality. We will adopt an intersectional approach to the subject and analyze the theatrical, literary and aesthetic means by which plays confront issues of identity, in the context of power relations, race, and politics. The course surveys theoretical and critical approaches to identity and sexuality (Gender Studies, Feminist Criticism, Queer Theory) and charts how different theories and methodologies work in practice engaging with a variety of theatrical texts and performances. It explores the queering of the stage and the performance of gender identity and sexuality, starting at the end of the nineteenth century with Oscar Wilde’s decadent erotica, proceeding with Lillian Hellman as representative of the politically aware body of important women playwrights and the Vicious “Marriage Play” of Edward Albee. The course also explores the explicitly homosexual agenda of Tony Kushner’s “angelology” and the Latino theatre of Migdalia Cruz in its contemporary experimentation and daring heights. The course ends with a seminar and screening of Simon Stephens’ contemporary reworking of the canon. Thus, it offers a complex critical approach to plays from the 20^th and 21^st-century Anglophone scene. Clips from film adaptations of the plays and performances will help explore ways of “reading” identity and sexuality on stage (West End, Broadway or bohemian club theatres, Off-Broadway, fringe).

 

 

 

Ημερομηνία δημιουργίας

Τρίτη 5 Μαρτίου 2024