DRAM20200: Write a critical analysis on two different plays that you have studied that examine the discourses of gender roles and power: Contemporary American Drama Essay, UCD, Ireland

Questions

1. Write a critical analysis on two different plays that you have studied that examine the discourses of gender roles and power.
2. Critically evaluate, both thematically and dramaturgically, two different works that represent the voices of marginalized groups in terms of ethnicity or sexuality in American drama.
3. Annette Saddick, ‘since the Second World War, the ways in which America has thought “in public in front of itself” through drama and performance have taken various forms, from the conservative conventions of domestic realism that typically reassert the dominant social order, to more anti-realistic, anti-mimetic dramatic modes that question and resist these restrictive definitions of what it means to be, or to actually count, as ‘American’ on the stage in terms of ethnicity, social class, gender, sexuality, and race.’

With reference to Saddick’s statement, critically compare and contrast two

different plays on your course, one that adheres to conventional realism and

the other that is more experimental/anti-realistic inform and explains how

these plays treat any of the categories of identity that Saddick outlines.

4. Write a scholarly analysis of two different plays on your course that examine what Matthew Roudane terms ‘the American Dream myth and how it relates to patriarchal capitalism.

5. Colorblind casting ignores race or ethnicity and casts actors solely on the basis of talent and suitability for a role. Those who oppose colorblind