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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
1 credit Students attend one or more plays at the Guthrie or other professional Twin Cities theatres, or theatres in the LaCrosse and Rochester areas. Discussions are held following the plays. An additional fee is required.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Consideration of more complex directorial problems, including coaching actors, and achievement of style and unity. Directing of classroom scenes is required as well as the directing of a one-act play to be performed for an audience. Prerequisite: TA240 and consent of instructor.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
1-3 credits Courses dealing with specialized topics, including those relevant to the actor, director, designers, or other theatre practitioners. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course consists of building blocks for those interested in pursuing playwriting. Techniques for exploring character development, conflict, dialogue, and dramatic action will be explored through specific writing assignments. The culminating work will be a one-act play written by the students.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits The course focuses on the acting styles of some of the following periods: Greek, Medieval, Elizabethan, Neo-classic, Restoration, and Victorian. The class focuses on more intense monologue and scene study as well as character analysis. Prerequisite: TA100, TA155, TA260, and junior or senior status.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits The course is taught during the London semester. It examines the British approach to scene work and the rehearsal process. Time is spent in working with the Standard British RP dialect. Students work with scenes written by British playwrights such as Shakespeare, Noel Coward, Tom Stoppard, and Harold Pinter. Recommended: TA260. Prerequisites: TA100 and TA155.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is designed to provide a study of the history and repertoire of music in the theatre from its early forms of operetta, burlesque, vaudeville and revue to the integrated and spectacle musicals of today. This course focuses on the process of the writers, directors, performers and producers of musical theatre and through discussions of the production elements provide insight into what makes the musical form unique. Students have the opportunity to formulate their own aesthetic in regards to musical theater. Prerequisites: TA100 and TA221.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course explores the transfer of dramatic literature from the page to the stage. Prior to attending a London production, students analyze and interpret a given text and discuss its possible production requirements. After viewing the production students assess it based on their pre-production analysis and interpretation.
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3.00 Credits
1-3 creditsThe opportunity for guided investigation into theatre research or production. Students may pursue a broad scope of possibilities such as acting, directing, design, theatre administration. Production projects are be incorporated into departmental activities when possible. Consent of department required.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course presents the historical development of theatre as a cultural institution from Realism and Naturalism to the present with an emphasis on international theatre. The practice and theory of theatre is examined in relationship to social, cultural, political, artistic, philosophic, and religious movements. Among the topics covered are Ibsen and Chekhov, Stanislavsky, Absurdist theatre, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, the emergence of Broadway, and acting for the contemporary theatre.
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