Fall 2025
Women Playwrights Speak Their Truths: A Call to Activism
Dates: September 01, 2025 - December 10, 2025Day/Time: Monday; Wednesday 10:05 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
Level: 200-Level
Certificate: Global Humanities*
Instructor: Aimée Michel, Simon’s Rock at Bard College
This course celebrates women playwrights in the US and elsewhere who often work in marginalized spaces due to the political, confrontational style and content of their writing. Ntozake Shange quotes Frantz Fanon's "combat breath" saying she wants to "attack deform n maim the language" she was taught "to hate myself in". The writers we will read have all created their own language in order to speak their truth. Students will co-lead discussions as we read these plays aloud together.
Credits: 3 US / 6 ECTS