POPULAR! 1020B - Performance Everywhere
This course introduces students to concepts in Theatre Studies. The course emphasizes hands-on and experiential learning. 0.5 course

2202G - Performance Beyond Theatres
Students will examine forms of contemporary performance that are less conventional and/or challenge conventional assumptions. This course will explore the performance of everyday life, contemporary avant-garde, site specific, and environmental theatre. 0.5 course

2204F - Forms and Genres: The Greeks to Shakespeare
This course will introduce students to the range of plays and theatre practices that shaped the first two millennia of theatre. Landmark texts will be studied in the context of the diverse theatre spaces, festivals, and political cultures in which the drama first came into being. 0.5 course

2212G - Adapting Across Page, Stage, and Screen (cross-listed with Film 2212F and English 2112F)
How does the shape an artwork takes contribute to its aesthetic and political power? When artworks flex across form and media how do their messages change? What did Marshall McLuhan mean when he said "the medium is the message"? How do genre and form shape social and political discourse? In this course, students explore these questions and more as they investigate texts that assume multiple cultural forms and represent a diversity of perspectives. 0.5 course

3208G - Table Work
Students will close-read parts in plays in order to analyze a script's vocal patterning, experiment with the pacing of a scene in terms of breath, silences, and "beats", shape interpretations of character, tone, and motivation, and debate what constitutes textual "clues" to performance. 0.5 course

3211F - Queer and Trans Sexualities in Performance (cross-listed with GSWS 3306F)
Gender and sexuality. Intersectional experiences of gender identity. Trans, non-binary, queer lives. At this unprecedented moment in modern history, these once-taboo topics are not only being spoken about openly, in the social mainstream, but are being taken up and explored with rigour, kindness, and hot, sweaty desire in all manner of theatrical and performance forms. At the same time, over the last few years, rights we thought had been enshrined and were no longer at risk—like the right to a safe abortion; the right to marry your same-sex partner; the right to live a safe trans life with dignity and honour—have come under scrutiny and attack the world over, including in the USA and the United Kingdom.

This course explores the ways in which theatre and performance artists intervene to advocate for sexual rights and dignity, to dissect some of our most basic assumptions about our sexual selves, and to push boundaries in order to admit more human beings into the sexual mainstream. We will read theatre texts, watch performances, and explore writings by artists and scholars to help us think through not just queer and trans struggle, but also queer and trans joy. How do we love each other, express that love, and advocate for the humanity of love in all its forms?

Please see the SAMPLE syllabus below for more information. 0.5 course

Fall 2026

3211F / 001

K. Solga

SAMPLE Syllabus

POPULAR! 3581F - Toronto: Culture and Performance (cross-listed with English 3581F and Sasah 3390F)
What's a "global city"? Is Toronto one? How does the theatre that appears on Toronto’s stages contribute to, or maybe even contest, Toronto's "global city" aspirations?

What's an "intercultural city"? Is Toronto one? How do the performing arts help to shape the intercultural structures that now identify Toronto to Torontonians, and to the world? For whom are those structures liberating—and whom do those structures still leave behind?

What does economics have to do with theatre? Is theatre a viable business? Who works in the theatre, and how is their work valued? What does theatre economics have to do with other kinds of urban economics—like, say, real estate?

Or what about memory? How does the theatre shape our memories (personal, communal, historical) of the city and its inhabitants?

All these questions and more we will touch on as we explore Toronto through its theatre culture circa autumn 2026. Expect to visit the city: in person, through texts, and through recorded performances. Expect to meet artists! And expect opportunities to make performance of your own, should you wish to do so. 0.5 course

Fall 2026

3581F / 001

K. Solga

SAMPLE Syllabus

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Elevate your university experience with our two exclusive courses offered every spring in collaboration with the renowned Stratford Festival!👇

Theatre Studies 3206F - Shakespeare in Performance and Theatre Studies 3207F - Voice and Text in the Theatre

These immersive courses run for two weeks during the Spring/Summer session, providing a unique blend of academic rigor and theatrical excellence. Enrollment is limited. Visit the course page for full details.

4999E - Thesis Project
Individual instruction in the selection of a topic, preparation of materials, and creation of a thesis project with a focus on theatre or performance studies. The outcome may be a written piece of research or a performance-creation project. Students who wish to take this course must apply to the Program Director, Theatre Studies. This course is restricted to students with an 80% or above average and who have completed at least 1.0 course(s) from Theatre Studies 3000-4999 or approved substitutions. See Theatre Studies 4999E - Thesis Project for details. 1.0 course

3206F - Shakespeare in Performance
An historical, theoretical, and analytical introduction to Shakespeare's plays in performance. This course focuses on specific problems related to past productions and to those in the current Stratford Festival season. Class usually meets for three hours a day, six afternoons a week (Mon-Sat, Sun off), and usually includes attendance at Shakespeare productions. THEATRE STUDIES 3206F RUNS CONCURRENTLY WITH THEATRE STUDIES 3207F. Intersession only. 0.5 course

Spring/Summer

1-4 pm

3206F / 600

Stratford Festival

N. Krizanic

Syllabus

3207F - Voice and Text in the Theatre (co-requisite TS3206F)
A workshop in which students will experience, with simple, practical exercises, the ways in which Festival actors develop and maintain their voices and explore various aspects of the text they are performing. Class usually meets for three hours a day, six mornings a week (Mon-Sat, Sun off). Taught by Stratford Festival staff. THEATRE STUDIES 3207F RUNS CONCURRENTLY WITH THEATRE STUDIES 3206F. STUDENTS TAKING THEATRE STUDIES 3207F MUST ALSO BE REGISTERED IN THEATRE STUDIES 3206F. Intersession only. 0.5 course

Spring/Summer

9 am-12 pm

3207F / 600

Stratford Festival

M. Farrell/T. Wellham

Syllabus

To request permission to enroll in the courses, please contact undergrad.ews@uwo.ca.