Lecture: Theater in the Digital Age - Aufbaumodul - Details

Lecture: Theater in the Digital Age - Aufbaumodul - Details

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Course name Lecture: Theater in the Digital Age - Aufbaumodul
Course number ANG.05280.03; ANG.06153.01
Semester SoSe 2026
Current number of participants 28
expected number of participants 25
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Lecture in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Next date Monday, 29.06.2026 16:15 - 17:45, Room: Seminarraum 2 [AKStr.35] (Angl.)
Lehrsprache(n) Englisch

Module assignments

Comment/Description

Theater in the digital age seems like an oxymoron – isn’t theater inherently embodied? Doesn’t a performance rely on the co-presence of actors on a theater stage and an audience? In fact, theater has been quick to incorporate all kinds of media and adapt to all sorts of technical upheavals and medial turns. In this seminar we will discuss four plays that draw on human existence in the digital age while at the same time reacting to it in an aesthetic way. We will read and analyze selected plays by contemporary writers examining their use of form, language, and themes in response to the social and cultural changes during the digital age. Through a close reading of these texts, students will also gain a deeper understanding of the historical context in which these plays were written and their potential to be brought to the theater stage.

Students are required to obtain the following primary texts:
• Nelson, Richard. The Apple Family: A Pandemic Trilogy. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. Faber Drama.
• Haley, Jennifer. The Nether. Faber & Faber, 2014.
• Hudes, Quiara Alegría. Water by the Spoonful, 2024. Klett English Editions.
• Lee-Jones, Jasmine. Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner. 1. Auflage. Ernst Klett Sprachen, 2022.

Modulleistungen:

LA-Students: Oral Exam (July 15-17, or October 21-23, 2026; deadline for your „Thesenpapier“: July 14, 2026, noon; October 20, 2026, noon)

BA-Students: Final paper (“Hausarbeit”; due September 15, 2026, as a pdf-attachment to my e-mail - no hard copy necessary)

Admission settings

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The following rules apply for the admission:
  • Admission locked.