Post War and Contemporary American Theatre

  • Autumn 2015
  • Canterbury Christ Church University
  • BA Drama (second-year drama course, lecturer)

The aims of the module are to introduce seminal American plays from the post-war era to the present within their social and historical context, as well as an awareness of the playwrights’ wider bodies of work. The course explores a variety of different styles of theatrical texts created in the context of American theatre in the last 70 years.