- Rehearsal and Performance: Theatre

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The Evergreen State College

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Faculty: Walter Eugene Grodzik (theater, acting) Major areas of study include acting, directing, theatrical design, stage management, dramaturgy, costuming, lighting, sound, publicity, theatre history, critical theory, and dramatic literature. Class Standing: Class Standing: Sophomore and above; transfer students welcome Faculty Signature: Admission by interviews/auditions. Interviews/auditions will be conducted at the end of winter quarter and at the Academic Fair, March 5, 2008. For more information, contact Walter Eugene Grodzik, 867-6076 or grodzikw@evergreen.edu, before the auditions and academic fair. Qualified students will be accepted until the program fills. Rehearsal and Performance: Theatre will consist exclusively of participating in a faculty-directed stage production of a play chosen by the instructor. The audition, rehearsal, and production work will follow an academic/professional theater model. The play will be chosen from the realistic or avant-garde theater canon. This will allow us to work with acting and directing techniques that were specifically developed for each type of theater. For example, these techniques could include Stanislavski's Sense Memory, Michael Chekhov's Psychological Gesture, or Ann Bogart's Viewpoints. Students will experience rigorous training in movement and vocal techniques and will learn to utilize these techniques in the performance of the play. Participation in the production involves acting in the play, dramaturgical work, assistant directing, stage management, set, costume, lighting and sound design, set and costume construction, publicity, and all the other areas related to a successful play production. Every student will participate in more than one area of the production process. While the production will be directed by the faculty, the process will be an interactive collaboration among all participants. The program will spend the first seven to eight weeks in rehearsal, and will culminate in a fully mounted site-specific production or a production in the Experimental Theatre. In addition to rehearsals and production work, the students will examine dramaturgical matters closely related to the production. For example, if the production is a play by a twentieth century avant-garde writer, students will study other plays by the same author, scholarship, and the social, political, economic and cultural environment of the play. This will help us to understand the world of the play, as well as the world of the author. Total: 16 credits Enrollment: 25 Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in education, theater, the arts and humanities.

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16.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.evergreen.edu

Phone Number:

(360) 867-6170

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Quarter

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