University degrees: Summer University
Course length: 1 month
Course city: Los Angeles
UCLA General Education Credit
Counts toward Theater minor
Satisfies diversity requirement for College of Letters and Science and School of Music
From Beyonce’s Lemonade to suffragette theater, drag queens to Hamilton, in this class we will survey a wide variety of 20th and 21st century theater movements and performances—interrogating the ways in which minoritarian theatermakers have used the stage to inspire their communities, create great art, communicate, agitate for political change and more. The dramas of diversity don’t occur only on the stage—some of them surround even the meaning of the word, how people use it in universities, and its status as an American value—the Drama of Diversity will balance a consideration of what diversity means and how it works today with introductions to many of the most exciting theater movements of the last hundred years.
Professor Michelle Liu Carriger specializes in the historiography of theater, performance and everyday life. This course also features guest lectures from a wealth of expert theater practitioners and scholars. More information on the guests can be found on the syllabus.
