Non-Award
This course explores global theatre practices across various cultural and historical contexts, covering topics from ancient to modern theatre traditions. Students will learn key concepts, theatrical forms, and research methodologies.
This course introduces students to global theatre practices and traditions across different cultural, historical and performance context. The topics consist of a wide-ranging approach to connect contextual developments in theatre: oral, ritual and shamanic cultures, Greek theatre, European Medieval and Renaissance theatre, Asian theatres, twentieth-century theatre, and more recent theatres of decolonization, globalization and interculturalism. Students are exposed to key concepts and ways of seeing theatrical form, content and function, as well as the context from which these practices emerged.
On completing the course, students will be able to:
This course introduces students to global theatre practices and traditions across different cultural, historical and performance context. The topics consist of a wide-ranging approach to connect contextual developments in theatre: oral, ritual and shamanic cultures, Greek theatre, European Medieval and Renaissance theatre, Asian theatres, twentieth-century theatre, and more recent theatres of decolonization, globalization and interculturalism. Students are exposed to key concepts and ways of seeing theatrical form, content and function, as well as the context from which these practices emerged.
On completing the course, students will be able to: