Dramatic Structure & Style

This is a core two-semester course for incoming freshmen in the Drama BFA program at The College of Performing Arts at the New School University. Course Descriptions below.

This course investigates core values in dramatic structure, from classic and archaic to the avant-garde. This class is an intensive seminar for first-year students to help develop their ideas through reading, writing, and performance. Students will emerge from this course confident in the process of formulating, developing, and expressing dramaturgical ideas with the written word.

In both semester, students develop their ability to see, read, identify and name elements of dramatic structure and style; venture their ideas about how structure and style reflect artists’/theatre’s response to particular social, political and historical contexts; and grow as artists through the creation of our own work in response to our particular social, political, and historical context.