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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Mazer. This course is both a practical writing course, and an examination of the role of the various kinds of theatre criticism and their relation to contemporary theatrical art and the theatre industry. Students (and faculty) will write (and rewrite) one theatre review a week, based on a theatre event everyone will see. Additional readings will be drawn from theatre critics and reviewers through history (Hazlitt, Shaw, Beerbohm, Agate, Clurman, Brustein, Rich, Wardle, Nightingale, Billington, and others).
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Malague. This course examines the making of theatre from the actor's perspective, focusing on major twentieth century forms and the acting techniques constructed to produce them. Through an investigation of theories of such practitioners as Stanislavsky, Brecht, and Grotowski, the class will consider contrasting models for their actor's work, and such issues as the actor's relationship to the audience, director, playwright, and text. The course will include practical performance exercises and an exploration of representative play scripts.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Fox. This course examines a series of "variety arts" movements -- theatre in which striking visual and auditory elements are even more important than the traditional story and script. Topics generally include: Grand Guignol, the French "theatre of fear and terror," where shocking images are used to stimulate and frighten the audience; tableaux vivant, in which actors create stage pictures based on famous paintings and other visual icons; concert song and ballad, where performers interpret character and story through vocal means; American musical theatre, in which music and dance become the highest form of expression; German cabarets, where artists use a combination of song and text to create politically and culturally controversial theatre; contemporary performance art, a genre that mixes comedy, the visual arts, dance, music and text.; and more. The course also explores how these visual and auditory elements might be used by actors, directors, and designers to enhance and enrich our more traditional, text-based theatre.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Malague. Theatre began as a form that excluded women entirely. The plays of ancient Greece and Elizabethan England were written and performed only by men, beginning a long tradition of theatre that represented women only from male perspectives. Has that tradition been so dominant for so long that women's voices on stage are still a novelty This course focuses on a wide range of plays and performances by and about women; the work we read (and view) will evidence artistic attempts to represent women's lives, experiences and perspectives on the stage. Among the issues encountered and examined in these works are the roles of love, sexuality, friendship, career, community, marriage, motherhood, family, and feminism in women's lives - as well as the economic and political position(s) of women in society. The course will also offer contextual background on feminist theatre history, theory, and literature, as well as the diverse (and divergent) creative efforts of female artists to use use live performance as a means of creating social and political change.
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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Kant. This course, with different topics, may be repeated for credit. Topics in Dance History examines the development of theatrical dance and performance through the ages. It offers several courses that look at the way in which new languages of the body were articulated. The changes of aesthetic values of movement and dance will be placed within their social development and examined through historical inquiry. Dance as a social activity that reflects and acts upon the societies in which it grows, is understood in a broad context. Therefore students will work with writings, designs, videos and other material to understand the relationship between ideas and artistic expressions. Students will also be introduced to music, literature, theater and fine arts and asked to consider their relationship to dance. The courses range from analyses of 15th century dance treatises to 20th century movement performances.
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3.00 Credits
Malague. Prerequisite(s): THAR 220. Scene Study is the third level acting class, open by permission to those students who have successfully completed Introduction to Acting and Advanced Acting. Building on the work of those courses, Scene Study proceeds with an increased emphasis on the analysis and performance of the playscript. Students are given the opportunity to identify individual goals and to work on material which challenges them; they will also be encouraged to work from the circumstances of the text, to make strong character choices, and to interact in-the-moment with scene partner(s).
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16.00 - 20.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Ferguson, Fox, Malague, Mazer and Schlatter. Theatre Rehearsal and Performance provides students with deep intellectual and artistic immersion in the theatrical process through intensive research, rehearsal, and performance of a full-length stage piece. Students may enroll in this course as actors (by audition only) or as assistant directors, stage managers, dramaturgs, or designers (by permission of the instructor). Each semester, the play will be featured in the Theatre Arts Program production season; the class meeting times will vary, but will typically consist of 16-20 hours per week in the evening hours.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Kano. Japan has an enormously rich and varied theatrical tradition. In this course, we will examine Japanese theatre in historical and comparative contexts.
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3.00 Credits
Allen. This course studies the use of transportation as an instrument of social policy and the role of government (via regulation) in the industry. Topics covered include: location analysis, mass transport, costs and pricing analysis,regulation and deregulation, and economic development.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Prerequisite(s): For the second semester: Completion of the first semester or permission of the instructor. Offered through Penn Language Center. Introduction to the spoken and written language of contemporary Turkey.
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