Instructor: Nick Chase

Wednesdays, April 15 - 29 | 10 am - 12 pm | $36 | 3 weeks

Have you ever left the theater deeply moved (or strangely unmoved) and wondered why? What makes one play resonate while another falls flat?

In this engaging theater appreciation course with Local Theater’s Nick Chase, participants explore how playwrights shape powerful dramatic experiences. Together, we read and discuss three plays spanning different eras: a contemporary work, a late 19th- or early 20th-century play, and a classical dramatic work. Each week, we unpack one play, examining how dramatists use the essential tools of the form (character, plot, structure, language, and theme) to create meaning and impact.

Designed for theater lovers of all experience levels, this course offers practical insight into how plays work, deepening your enjoyment of both reading and seeing theater.

About the Instructor

Nick Chase is Co-Artistic Director of Boulder’s Local Theater Company (LTC), an organization dedicated to the discovery, development, and production of new plays. Nick has helped to develop more than 60 scripts that have gone on to be productions in Boulder and across the country. He also co-created and directed twenty-seven “episodes” of the critically acclaimed series Shells, produced and performed at New York City’s The Public Theater. Nick recently directed the critically acclaimed LTC play Bad Books at the Dairy Arts Center.

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To make our programs accessible to all, we are happy to assist anyone with a financial need. Please contact Julia.Price@boulderjcc.org.