Description: Seminar, four hours. Limited to 15 students. Selected topics in history and criticism of theater and performance. Study of how experimental theaters originate, how they imagine their form of performance, their audience, and their goals. Concentration on theaters that regarded themselves, in some way, as experimental. Examples primarily from theaters within U.S. from 1960s to present, although examples from other countries, specifically Poland, also considered. Letter grading.

Units: 5.0