This course explores the ways that writing performs, not merely describing the world but actively re-shaping it, in the way it structures thought, feeling, encounter, and memory. Through weekly lectures, guided workshops, and readings and exercises outside of class, you will explore a variety of theatrical and performative ‘modes’. Ultimately these will be directed toward writing you will create for a performed situation – which may be delivered live by a performer or performers in a theatre, encountered by a seated or mobile audience, experienced through media such as headphones or hypertext, or some other combination. But in doing so we will take inspiration from the way language works all around us, whether in the theatre or not.
