Atelier Courses

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“Ill Seen Ill Said”: Staging a Beckett Text

ATL 494 / THR 494 · Spring 2017

S01 · Wednesdays, 1:30 - 4:20 pm

Instructors: Fintan O'Toole · Lisa Dwan

This course explores Beckett’s prose writings, specifically the novel Ill Seen Ill Said, challenging students to find myriad ways to dramatize a work that wasn’t initially meant for the stage.

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Adaptation and Performance with Fiasco Theater

ATL 499 / THR 499 · Spring 2017

S01 · Mondays, 1:30 - 4:20 pm

Instructors: Ben Steinfeld · Noah Brody

This course is centered around the development of Fiasco Theater’s upcoming production of "The Beggar's Opera." The course is for performers, musicians, directors, writers, historians, designers, and more! If “opera” throws you, you should know that the piece is about businessman gangsters (male and female), mercenary prostitutes, beggars (economic inequality,) and love (which is nothing compared to money and status) — and the music explored will be new and contemporary, not old and operatic.