For the first time this year, the upper school will offer a class called “Performance Studies in Theater.” This one-credit semester-long course will include Aristotle’s Poetics as a jumping-off point, and will explore theater from page to stage as a live performing art. The class will focus on contemporary American Theater and explore topics including dramatic structure, the relationship between theater and society, theatrical representation, and the crafts of acting and playwriting. Students will rehearse and perform a variety of scenes, engage with live performances and video archives of past performances, and write their own short works for the stage.