What is the enduring appeal of your favorite film or play? How can you more deeply experience a play, musical, or movie for its meaning and fully understand the intent of its authors? Discuss some of your favorite works of stage and screen and discover techniques to enhance your experience attending theatre and film. Learn to identify dramatic forms and how they reflect the changing values of society. Participants will learn the tools that directors and actors use to interpret a script for production. In the second week, we will apply these tools to a discussion of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire.

Course dates are April 4 and 11.

Instructor: Scott Edmiston, BFA ’83, is an educator, award-winning theater director, and author. Hailed as “one of Boston’s finest directors” by the Boston Globe, he is the recipient of the Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence and the Penn State Distinguished A&A Alumni Award. Since relocating to Boston in 1997, he has directed more than 60 productions, including 25 premieres. A professor of theatre at Berklee, previously he was dean of theater at Boston Conservatory and chair of theatre at Northeastern University. Scott has also taught at Boston University, Brown University, and Brandeis University. Full bio: https://college.berklee.edu/liberal-arts/faculty/scott-edmiston