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3.00 Credits
One-half course for one semester. We will undertake intensive work in resolving acting and production problems, addressing problems of style, and developing techniques fundamental to performance. Conference and laboratory leading to performance and followed by written evaluation. Theatre 210 recommended. Offered on a credit/no credit basis only. May be repeated for credit, with departmental approval. Prerequisite: audition or interview. Conference-lab.
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0.00 Credits
Zero units for one semester. Students will perform a minimum of 20 hours in a technical support capacity-set, light, costume, makeup, construction, running crew, or design-in a department-sponsored production. Completion of this course will constitute partial fulfillment of the department crew requirement. Credit/no credit only. Lab.
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3.00 Credits
One-half course for each semester. This course is an introduction to production design that emphasizes script analysis and design conceptualization with reference to historical and modern practices and technologies. Topics will include stage lighting, scenery, sound, costume, mask, and makeup. Check with the instructor of each section for specific course content. All four sections may be taken for credit and, with the approval of the department and satisfactory completion of any one section, the course may be repeated as an advanced practicum-tutorial. Prerequisite: Theatre 110, 161, 162, or interest demonstrated through prior work in high school or community theatre. Conference-lab-tutorial.
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3.00 Credits
One-half course for one semester. This course is an experiential analysis of the basic physical, vocal, and analytical tools of the actor's craft through group and individual exercises, audition monologues, and scenes. It also provides a basic introduction to the work of Stanislavski. Conference-lab.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. We will examine the development of American theatre from its 18th-century origins to the present. A central focus will be the plays of American dramatists; attention will also be given to the evolution of indigenous theatrical forms (the minstrel show, the musical) and to significant European scenic and literary concepts and approaches to acting technique that have been absorbed into American stage practice. Lecture-conference. Offered alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course will emphasize the study of dramatic form within the larger framework of the theatre as a cultural institution. Texts will be placed in a historical context in order to consider the evolving contingent relationships affecting the practitioners of theatre, the audiences they are responsive to, and the physical aspects of performance. Lecture-conference. Offered alternate years. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course surveys developments in 20th-century European and American experimental theatre by examining the work of influential directors, playwrights, designers, theorists, and theatre collectives. Changing views of the theatre's aesthetic and social functions will be explored. Special topics will include the rise of the director, the evolution of theatrical space, models of theatrical organization, and the role of the avant-garde. Lecture-conference. Offered alternate years. Not offered 2008-09.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Many Western theatre practitioners have drawn inspiration from Eastern theatre traditions, Yeats (Noh theatre), Brecht (Chinese opera), and Artaud (Balinese theatre) among them. We will examine various cross-fertilizations as well as contemporary issues of interculturalism in the theatre. In addition, we will examine plays that have as their focus questions of cultural identity. Conference. Offered alternate years. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course examines the roles gender has played in shaping world theatre as well as the roles theatre has played in shaping various cultural conceptions of gender. We will focus particularly on 20th-century performance, including cross-dressing, "re-dressing" of canonical plays, the ascent of performance art, and questions of theatre and gender raised by performers from Japan to Cuba. We will interrogate the historical, cultural and personal variability of the notion of gender itself, asking ourselves: What are theatre artists doing with the idea of gender Conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Students will be introduced to the theory and practice of acting approaches in 20th-century Western theatre. Emphasis will be placed on both physical and psychological aspects of performance and characterization. Readings and research will focus on major practitioners and playwrights. Maximum 16 students. Prerequisites: Theatre 210, or equivalent experience with audition, or approval by the instructor. Conference-performance lab. Offered alternate years.
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