55-5309 Story to Stage: Adaptation for the Stage

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 Theatre 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.

3 Credits
Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-5101 Fiction Writing I or 55-6101 Fiction Writing I or 55-5102 Fiction Writing II or 55-6102 Fiction Writing II or 55-5104 Prose Forms or 55-5105 Advanced Prose Forms or

55-5106 Fiction Writing: Advanced

or 55-6110 Thesis Development or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I or 55-1101 Fiction Writing I