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  • THEA 220: The Modern Stage

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    The premiere in 1879 of Henrik Ibsen's incendiary masterpiece, A Doll House, sparked an explosion of creativity in Western theater and drama over the next 125 years. This course studies two dozen of the most important plays staged during that turbulent period. In addition to Ibsen, authors may include Strindberg, Chekov, Shaw, Pirandello, Brecht, O'Neill, Beckett, Genet, Pinter, and various contemporary playwrights. Students also read critics and theorists who have attempted to make sense of this revolutionary period. Viewings of filmed versions of several of the plays on the syllabus help to reveal their power in performance. Open to first-year students. M. Andrucki.
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  • THEA 227: Seventies and Eighties Avant-Garde Theater and Performance Art

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    This course is a hands-on poetic exploration of the binary territories of "language as object" and "subject as language" as they have been articulated in the work of contemporary performance-theater artists from Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman, and Fluxus to Holly Hughes, Karen Finley, and Jim Neu. Some background in performance is recommended. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 12. Instructor permission is required. Normally offered every year. W. Pope.L.
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  • THEA 231: Scene Design

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    This course presents in-depth study of the creative and practical tools used by set designers to visually enrich and shape the theatrical experience. Students study a history of theatrical architecture and design, focusing on how they have shaped the uses of stage space and the vocabulary of modern scene design. The course builds on aesthetic fundamentals developed in Theater 130, and examines in greater depth the relationship between set designers and theatrical texts. Practically, students learn fundamentals of theatrical drafting, perspective and scale drawing, and model making. This course is recommended for students with an interest in the visual and emotional impact of effective scene design on drama and performance. Prerequisite(s): Theater 130, or an individual portfolio review. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 14. Instructor permission is required. C. McDowell.
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  • THEA 232: Lighting Design:The Aesthetics of Light

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    This course provides an introduction to the unique aesthetic and technical decisions a lighting designer must make. Students examine the modern lighting aesthetic by studying popular culture and learning to translate these images to the stage. Students also are required to serve on a lighting crew for one of the department's productions and design part of the spring dance concert. Prerequisite(s) or corequisite(s): one of the following: Theater 101, 130, or 132. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 14. Instructor permission is required. M. Reidy.
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  • THEA 233: Costume Design

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    In theater, as in life, clothes often "make the man." This course focuses on the myriad aspects of personality, position, and state of mind created and enhanced for stage characters by the art of costume design. Emphasis is placed on analyzing play texts and bringing characters to life. The course builds on aesthetic fundamentals developed in Theater 130, and offers further instruction in costume research, figure drawing, and sketching and painting skills used to present costume design information. This course is recommmended for students with an interest in visual and emotional impact of effective design on drama and performance. Prerequisite(s): Theater 130 or an indiviual portfolio review. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 14. C. McDowell.
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  • THEA 235: Dress and Adornment in Western Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    Dress means more than just fashion. The history of dress and human adornment reveals political, sexual, economic, and cultural conditions, often entwined in subtle or ephemeral ways with the aesthetics of what we perceive as fashion. This course begins with early Greek culture and continues through the Roman and Byzantine empires, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Restoration, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and into the current era. Students examine not only physical appearance, but also the other factors that have driven the myriad changes in the history of fashion in Western culture. Enrollment limited to 20. C. McDowell.
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  • THEA 236: Pattern Drafting and Draping

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    This course introduces students to the skills of pattern drafting, draping, and fitting garments, as well as some advanced costume construction skills and increased familiarity with the properties of different textiles. The course is structured as a series of lectures, demonstrations, and the completion of several hands-on projects by students. Recommended background: basic sewing skills. Enrollment limited to 12. C. McDowell.
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  • THEA 240: Playwriting

    2.00 Credits
    Bates College

    After reviewing the fundamentals of dramatic structure and characterization, students write one full-length or two one-act plays. Recommended background: two courses in theater or in dramatic literature. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 15. W. Pope.L.
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  • THEA 242: Screenwriting

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    This course presents the fundamentals of screenwriting: plot, act structure, character development, conflict, dialogue, and format. Lectures, writing exercises, and analyses of films such as Happiness, American Beauty, and Sleepless in Seattle provide the student with the tools to create a short screenplay. Prerequisite(s): Theater 240. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 12. Instructor permission is required. W. Pope.L.
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  • THEA 261: Beginning Acting

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    This course introduces the student to the physiological processes involved in creative acting. The student learns the Stanislavski approach to the analysis of realistic and naturalistic drama. Exercises leading to relaxation, concentration, and imagination are included in an improvisational context. Studies in motivation, sense perception, and emotion-memory recall lead the student to beginning work on scene performance. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 16. Normally offered every semester. P. Kuritz.
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