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In this studio course, students gain expertise in the special skills and techniques necessary to perform in the musical theater style. Each student performs solo, duet and trio musical theater selections with CD accompaniment. (Music is provided; however, students may choose a different solo piece, provided they have the accompaniment track or access to a pianist.) As a culminating exercise, students select pieces drawn from the semester's performance exercises, and these pieces are performed with appropriate costumes, props and choreography in a public cabaret setting. Prerequisites: DR 160; one course from DR level 200; Every Year, Fall
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This course presents a structural and thematic analysis of Shakespearian drama, with readings in contemporary drama and selected problems of scholarship, criticism and performance. Prerequisite: one course from EN level 200; Every Year, All
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Students learn musical theater dance styles and choreography through studio performance. As a culminating exercise, students select dance pieces to perform with appropriate costumes, props and choreography in a cabaret setting open to the public. Prerequisites: DR 160; one course from DR level 200; Every Year, Spring
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The course explores a wide range of playwriting strategies, exercises in technique and innovative methods through which new playwrights may begin to develop an individual voice and unique style capable of communicating their visions. Students read well-known plays of the modern era, analyzing the ways in which individual playwrights have employed conventional and unconventional structures in telling their stories. Students also complete a series of writing exercises designed to develop specific skills. As a culminating exercise, each student produces an original, one-act play. Prerequisites: EN 101, DR 101; Every Other Year
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In this advanced studio course, student actors use exercises in acting technique to deepen and refine their ability to create reality on stage. The techniques portion of the class consists of exercises and theories drawn from the work and writings of Stanislavski, Strasberg,Meisner, Hagen, Adler, Lewis and Chekhov. Students explore the skills necessary to create a sense of truth on stage, whether working with realistic texts or those drawn from non-realistic and classical theater. Prerequisite: DR 160; Every Other Year, Fall
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Junior or senior theater majors complete a semester-long or summer-long internship in their focus area. Possible internship sites include education and humanities departments of regional and professional theaters, public schools, social service agencies, administration and production departments of professional and regional theaters; and professional theaters in the New York/New England area offering internship programs in performance. Prerequisite: Junior or senior status in the major. Every Year, All
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This advanced seminar class encompasses a socio-historical study of dramatic literature and theory from the beginnings of the modern era to the present with an emphasis on relevance to contemporary performance techniques. The course examines such movements as realism, naturalism, futurism, symbolism, expressionism, surrealism, constructivism and absurdism, studying the texts, artists and critics of the modernist and post-modernist movements in an attempt to locate contemporary theater within its social, historical and political contexts. Prerequisite: DR 101; Every Other Year
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Students explore the economic and managerial aspects of American theater as they apply to the nonprofit professional theater. At the completion of the course, students are able to create a mission statement and marketing plan, and have a general understanding of budgeting reports, unions, laws and the roles of the government and the public in an arts organization. The Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven functions as a lab for student learning in this course, which is taught by a Long Wharf professional staff member. Prerequisite: DR 101; Every Year
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Prerequisites: DR 101
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Prerequisites: DR 101; EN 240, EN 250, EN 260, EN 270, EN 275, EN 280 or EN 281
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