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CATEGORIES:Lecture / Reading / Talk
CREATED:20230125T123013
SUMMARY:A Talk on "Playwriting, Power, and the Personal" by Kristin Idaszak (Playwright)
DESCRIPTION:Department of Design, Art and Performance (Theatre and Performance Studies)
  invites you for a talk on "Playwriting, Power, and the Personal" by Kristi
 n Idaszak.\n

About the Talk\nTheatre can either uphold or subvert the stat
 us quo, but it cannot abdicate the political and social context in which it
  is performed. This craft talk will explore how playwrights can use dramatu
 rgical tools such as dramatic structure, dialogue, and stage directions to 
 create complex sociopolitical worlds within their plays and be in conversat
 ion with the real world context in which the audience enters into the work.
  We will also discuss the roles of personal narrative, vulnerability, and e
 mpathy within political storytelling. We will investigate the relationship 
 between playwriting, power, and worldbuilding by engaging in a short genera
 tive writing exercise.
 
About the Speaker 
Kristin Idaszak is a Chicago-ba
 sed, internationally produced playwright whose recent work focuses on clima
 te change, gender, and disability. She is a two-time Playwrights’ Center Je
 rome Fellow and the former Shanke Playwriting Fellow at the Goodman Theatre
 . Idaszak has received the Kennedy Center’s Paula Vogel Playwriting Award a
 nd the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award. She has received commissions f
 rom EST/The Sloan Foundation, Goodman Theatre, Cleveland Play House, and th
 e St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, among others. Idaszak teaches at Northwes
 tern University and DePaul University in Chicago. MFA: UC San Diego.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>Department of Design, Art and Performance (Theatre and Performan
 ce Studies) invites you for a talk on "Playwriting, Power, and the Personal
 " by Kristin Idaszak.</strong></p><div><div><span style="color: #000000;"><
 b>About the Talk</b><br />Theatre can either uphold or subvert the status q
 uo, but it cannot abdicate the political and social context in which it is 
 performed. This craft talk will explore how playwrights can use dramaturgic
 al tools such as dramatic structure, dialogue, and stage directions to crea
 te complex sociopolitical worlds within their plays and be in conversation 
 with the real world context in which the audience enters into the work. We 
 will also discuss the roles of personal narrative, vulnerability, and empat
 hy within political storytelling. We will investigate the relationship betw
 een playwriting, power, and worldbuilding by engaging in a short generative
  writing exercise.</span></div><div><span style="color: #000000;"> </span><
 /div><span style="color: #000000;"><b>About the Speaker </b></span><span st
 yle="color: #000000;"></span></div><div><span style="color: #000000;">Krist
 in Idaszak is a Chicago-based, internationally produced playwright whose re
 cent work focuses on climate change, gender, and disability. She is a two-t
 ime Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellow and the former Shanke Playwriting Fel
 low at the Goodman Theatre. Idaszak has received the Kennedy Center’s Paula
  Vogel Playwriting Award and the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award. She 
 has received commissions from EST/The Sloan Foundation, Goodman Theatre, Cl
 eveland Play House, and the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, among others. I
 daszak teaches at Northwestern University and DePaul University in Chicago.
  MFA: UC San Diego.</span></div>
DTSTAMP:20260503T152923
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20230127T141000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20230127T160000
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