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"We enjoyed the students immensely. They were articulate
and self-motivated, and rigorously pursued academic excellence."
Professors Gloria Gibson-Hudson and Dennis Rome, Indiana University
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY PROGRAM
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Social Identity in Contemporary African American and
LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender) Theatre
Indiana University, Bloomington
June 29-August 9, 2008
Faculty: Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, Department of Theater
and Drama, and Marlon Bailey, Departments of Gender Studies and African American and
African Diaspora Studies, both of Indiana University
Tutors: Desiree Barron, Cornell University, and Nina Foucher, University of Chicago
What does it mean for theatre to represent a community?
Can theatre simply mirror the people one encounters in life, or is there also a deeper
cultural meaning? Can theater ever give someone a sense of belonging?
This seminar will explore the various ways in which
theatre created by marginalized people overlaps with different categories of the
identity of the individual, the community, and the nation. We will focus on theatre
by and about African Americans and LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual, Transgender)
communities and their intersections. Within these two (at times intersecting)
communities, theatre has historically operated as commentary and cultural critique,
as well as a vehicle for creating and changing the ways we conceive of identity and
community itself. These traditions in theatre are both supportive of and challenging
to individuals and the communities (sometimes at the same time). By expressing
these tensions on stage, the theatre created by these communities reveals the
richness of life lived through both individual perspectives and shared
community experiences.
Relying on an expansive notion of theatre that is
not limited to the stage, we will investigate the intersections of theatre and
life in the African-American, LGBT and African American-LGBT experience.
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