Adam Golaski writes stories, essays and poems. Interests/areas of study include electronic music, horror, old and middle English literature, film, intertextuality, ancient world literature, audio drama, mythology, early American literature, paleontology, playwriting, contemporary art, museums, nature and science writing, and genre hybridization.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
LAS
E356-01
- THEATER THAT BITES THE HAND
LevelUndergraduate
UnitLiterary Arts and Studies
Subject Literary Arts and Studies
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatLecture
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
THEATER THAT BITES THE HAND
LevelUndergraduate
UnitLiterary Arts and Studies
Subject Literary Arts and Studies
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatLecture
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: M | 9:40 AM - 12:40 PMInstructor(s): Adam GolaskiLocation(s): College Building, Room 346Enrolled / Capacity: 25Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Let's read a selection of plays by playwrights Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Suzi Lori Parks, & Jackie Sibblies Drury--three innovators who dig deep into theater's history & reclaim / reimagine foundational dramatic works. Jacobs-Jenkins engages with Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon, Everyman & Euripides' The Bacchae; Parks incorporates the play President Lincoln watched on the last night of his life & rewrites Sophocles' Antigone in a U.S. border state; while Drury looks to 20th Century television. In addition to discussing the plays as works of literature, we'll consider how we might cast, stage, & perform them. Be prepared to read aloud in class!
