Course Description: Story to Stage: Adapting Prose Fiction to Stage Drama

Story to Stage: Adapting Prose Fiction to Stage Drama

55-5309

Students will explore the specific possibilities and techniques for adapting prose fiction to dramatic form. Readings and discussions, as well as videotapes or actual plays based upon fictional works (such as, for example, The Glass Menagerie, Native Son, Spunk, Of Mice and Men), will lead directly to students' own creative experiments in adapting selected prose fiction of published authors as well as of their own. Students will also gain experience in adapting dramatic work to prose in order to heighten the development of their own fiction. Whenever possible, students from the Theater Department will present staged readings of students work-in-progress. This course in excellent for students wishing to work both genres as well as and student interested in script forms for stage, film, radio, TV or other media. Previous playwriting experience is helpful but not required.

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