Contemporary British and Irish drama

City Lit

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Description

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    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

We explore the concerns, styles and influences of key twenty-first century dramatists, considering how they reflect the society we live in.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

-Identify key trends and concerns of the plays and the experimental nature of new forms
-Understand structure, methods of characterisations, use of language and how they work as performance texts.

You will be given photocopied extracts of the plays.

You will need to do a certain amount of reading and preparation.
Small and large group discussion. Discussion of extracts; viewing where possible.

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Subjects

  • Drama
  • Irish

Course programme

Themes and styles of 21st century British and Irish plays. We look at the structure, language and characterisation of the plays and how they can be interpreted as performance texts, exploring ideas of gender, race, power and the influence of contemporary sexuality.

We will look at extracts of a number of plays, including Jezz Butterworth's The Ferryman, Martin McDonagh's The lieutenant of Innishmore, Nina Raine's Consent and Charles 111 by Mike Bartlett.

Additional information

Please see our range of Literature courses under Humanities in the prospectus and under History, Culture and Writing on the website at General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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Contemporary British and Irish drama

£ 169 VAT inc.

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