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Dramaturgy in the Classroom: Teaching Undergraduate Students not to be Students
- Theatre Topics
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 13, Number 1, March 2003
- pp. 135-141
- 10.1353/tt.2003.0013
- Article
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The traditional relationship between student and professor--in which the student assumes that the professor knows something that the student does not--is the polar opposite of the relationship between the production dramaturg and the director--in which the dramaturg provides information that the director does not know, and seeks to stimulate the director with new ways of looking at the play. And so one of the tasks of an undergraduate dramaturgy course is to invert the normal teacher-student relationship, acculturating the student to a different role and power relationship.