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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Course is structured to develop fundamental skills in observation, drawing, painting, and modeling, with an emphasis on the application of these skills to the theatrical design process. Students are expected to provide appropriate materials as needed. This is the first course required of students in the Design/Technology concentration.
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2.00 Credits
Course offers experience in standard technical craft practices for the theater. Students study fundamental techniques in selected technical/craft areas including, but not limited to, scenery construction and handling, scene painting, sculpture for the stage, costume and properties construction, make-up prosthetics, electrics, and lighting. Students are expected to provide appropriate materials as needed. Students may complete different Stagecraft units to a total of 8 credits. The Performing Arts core curriculum requires completion of two laboratory units, or 4 credits. TH 141 Special Topics TH 142 Electrics TH 143 Properties Construction TH 144 Costume Construction TH 145 Scenic Construction TH 146 Scene Painting TH 147 Crafts TH 148 Masks
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0.00 Credits
Performing Arts majors are assigned to crew one Emerson Stage production project during their first year in the program. Successful completion of this crew assignment is required as part of the Performing Arts curriculum. Students who fail to earn a satisfactory grade in TH 149 during their first year may not be eligible for work with Emerson Stage until they do so through a new crew assignment.
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4.00 Credits
Historical survey course will introduce students to the evolution of styles in fashion and décor used for theatrical design and production. Students become fluent in the language of visual style. They explore tools for researching a style. They will prepare research folios and make classroom presentations of their discoveries. Research is accessed and delivered in a variety of ways including spoken, written, and graphic presentations, both traditional and computeraided. Students are expected to provide appropriate materials.
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4.00 Credits
Course will explore the artistic languages of theater and film. Dramatic material written for the stage will be read and analyzed and the process of adaptation of that material will be explored. Texts include the works of such playwrights as Shakespeare, Strindberg, Williams, and Albee. Film texts include the work of directors such as Lumet, Cukor, Solberg, and Nichols. Fulfills the Aesthetic Perspective of the General Education requirements.
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4.00 Credits
Students will examine American clothes and fashion in the 20th century, with a primary focus on the visual elements of everyday dress. Six distinct periods will be studied according to the silhouette and decorative details of each. Further, each fashion period will be studied within the context of its indirect influences (social, cultural, historical, technological, economical). Particular focus will be given to concepts of masculinity and feminity, and gender ambiguity; challenges to gendered clothes (such as trousers on women, long hair on men); and anti-fashion (zoot suits, beatniks, hippies, punk, goth). Fulfills the Aesthetic Perspective of the General Education requirements.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of theater and drama from the Greeks through the Restoration, with a focus on the major periods of Western theater and dramatic literature: the Greeks, Roman theater and drama, Medieval theater, Elizabethan drama, and Italian Commedia Dell'arte, Spanish Golden Age, French, and English Neo-Classicism. In addition, a survey of Eastern classical theater and drama with a particular emphasis on the Sanskrit theater, the Chinese drama and the Peking Opera, and the classical theater of Japan, including Kabuki, No, and the puppet theater. There will be selected readings of plays in their historical context with particular attention paid to theatrical styles of plays and production. (Fall semester)
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4.00 Credits
A survey of theater and drama from the late 17th century to the present. The major periods of world theater and drama, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Modernism, and Post-Modernism will be studied with particular emphasis on 20th-century theater and drama throughout the world, including Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Attention will be given to the work of both women and men. Theatrical conventions, innovations, and techniques developed in the Western and non-Western theaters will be explored. (Spring semester)
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4.00 Credits
Intensive scene study class builds on TH 123 and TH 124 (movement, improvisation, and voice) to ensure a personal commitment in the way students approach and experience scene work and acting technique (Meisner, Michael Chekhov, etc.) from the canon of various plays. We will emphasize the text, context, subtext, and the given circumstances of each play studied. Actors' scene breakdown, intentions, actions, obstacles, objectives, and moment-to-moment work will be some of the tools used to bring scenes from these plays to life. Prerequisites: TH 124 and permission. (Fall semester)
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4.00 Credits
In this course we combine and deepen the creative work accomplished in TH 123 and TH 124. Along with imagination, intelligence, and emotional availability, they form the actor's instrument and are put into service of a playwright's scripted material. This amalgam is the basis of work on a scripted ensemble play, which will be performed at the end of the semester. Ensemble techniques that explore the theater's collaborative nature will be used. Prerequisites: TH 221 and permission. (Spring semester)
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