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DRAMA (L15)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)SP2019

L15 Drama 491Staging Illness3.0 Units
Description:"Suddenly some force struck him in the chest and side, making it still harder to breathe, and he fell through the hole and there at the bottom was a light." This quotation, from Tolstoi's story, "The Death of Ivan Ilych," offers an example of how artists have employed serious or life-threatening diseases as a means of illuminating both physical suffering and spiritual rebirth. Even as it invades the body and isolates us from our fellowman, illness may offer opportunities for spiritual growth and renewal, serving as an apt metaphor for human survival in times of extremis. In her brilliant essay, "Illness as Metaphor" (1978) Susan Sontag takes issue with how illnesses like tuberculosis were misunderstood or even romanticized during the 19th Century in works like Dumas's Camille, or Puccini's La Boheme. During the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 90s, American artists, particularly theatre artists whose communities were decimated by the disease, were forced to consider how this global pandemic impacted their lives, especially at a time when the term AIDS was not even mentioned by the President of the United States. In conjunction with the Performing Arts Department's twenty-fifth anniversary production of Tony Kushner's extraordinary play, Angels in America, Part 1, Millennium Approaches, this new course examines how disease has been a focal point of artistic inquiry over the course of centuries. By examining works which are focused upon illness throughout history, the seminar offers both a deeper understanding and context to Kushner's masterpiece and the AIDS crisis, it considers how illness has always been an important subject for the investigation of what it means to be fully human.
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Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Fees:
Course Type:HomeSame As:L85 491Frequency:None / History
SecDays       TimeBuilding / RoomInstructorFinal ExamSeatsEnrollWaits
01-T-R---10:00A-11:30AMallinckrodt / 303 SchveyPaper/Project/Take Home2050
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