Writing about Gender and Violence in Plays

This workshop will discuss strategies that have been employed by playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Rachel Corrie and Lynn Nottage to portray themes of gender and power in plays about societies under political, military and natural threat.

Using scenes from these playwrights’ works as models, we will discuss possible methods for telling stories in such settings about trauma, the lives of women, relations between men and women and other related subjects.

Special Formula:The workshop will be limited to 15 participants. They must have good working knowledge of English. It is preferable those participants have some background in theatre and that they worked on specific projects related to the themes that will be addressed in the workshop.

Workshop given By Robert Myers
Robert Myers is a playwright based in Beirut and New York. He is Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud Center for American Studies (CASAR) and Professor of English and Creative Writing at AUB, where he teaches courses in playwriting, American theatre, British and Irish theatre, modern theatre and creative writing.

He is the recipient of two Fulbright fellowships, winner of the Joseph Jefferson Award for “Best New Play,” and he will be the Franke Fellow Visiting Artist/Scholar in the fall of 2011 at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University,