62-198 Plays With Words: Exploring Language-Driven Theater

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course will provide students with an understanding of the category of plays that use language as their main engine of storytelling. Students will learn to identify and analyze the conventions of language plays, as well as practicing techniques to write their own. Some of the elements of language plays discussed in this course include plays with nonnaturalistic language, emotionally expressive language, and actiondriven language. The course will culminate in a final project in the form of a completed, fulllength language play.

Prerequisites: none listed

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