GMST 029. The Theater of Intervention: After Shakespeare and Müller

(Cross-listed as THEA 011C)
In this course students will read selected texts by William Shakespeare and Heiner Müller, identify relevant contemporary themes and then create their own performances. The goal of the class is for the student to create work without distinctions between writing, acting and directing-the director as performer, the actor as the author of their own expression. This work also seeks to remove any separation between the artist and the citizen, political thinker, and activist. How can theater function as a performative political statement? How can a theater artist intervene in making social change? Readings will include Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, and Hamlet, both Shakespeare’s original versions and Müller’s contemporary adaptations. Open to all students without prerequisite. Taught by Cornell Visiting Professor Barbara Wysocka.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies

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