SSI1 127 | Hip Hop Theatre

Hip Hop Theatre will involve the close and critical reading and analysis of a host of plays from the expanding genre of Hip Hop Theater. Students will analyze, discuss, and write about how aesthetics like sampling, layering, non-linearity, flow and rupture, fragmentation, etc. inform the dramaturgy of Hip Hop playwrights. They will also examine how such aesthetics allow playwrights to reference and revise themes and conventions from traditional Western drama in powerful and innovative ways. Most importantly, students will critically reflect on the larger socio-political aspects of Hip Hop aesthetics on and off the stage.