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3.00 Credits
The process of play directing from the selection of a script through production. Prerequisites: Drama 212E and 240E, and permission of instructor. Preference given to Drama majors.
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3.00 Credits
This Acting Shakespeare course is paired with Drama 3472 as part of a four-week summer intensive program held at the Shakespeare's Globe Education Centre in London. This course, as well as the companion Text and History course (Drama 3472), is taught by a Washington University faculty member, and the program also draws heavily on British theater professionals and educators from Globe Education, who teach a set of short courses on movement, voice, textual analysis, historical context, monologue performance, and stage combat. Frequent access to the Globe stage allows actors to work in a spatial configuration very similar to that once used by Shakespeare's company itself. The course culminates with performances of scenes and monologues on the Globe stage. Application process must initiate through the Performing Arts Department office.
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3.00 Credits
A companion to Drama 347, Acting Shakespeare, this course on the textual, cultural, and historical dimensions of Shakespeare's work takes place at the Globe Education Centre in London, with a three-day trip to Stratford-upon Avon included, and viewings of seven plays at Shakespeare's Globe, other London theaters, and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, and visits to sites in London such as the National Gallery and the British Library. The course is based on close readings of the plays seen by the class in London and Stratford, with special attention to speaking and understanding Shakespeare's language (meter, figurative language, rhetoric, etc.). The course also examines historical and cultural pressures on Shakespeare's plays, with the rich cultural memories of London continually evoked.
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3.00 Credits
Same as Film 349
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3.00 Credits
A practical approach to the study of theater stage management focusing on organizational and communication skills. Workshops, lectures, and discussion; guest speakers and field trips covering the pre-production, rehearsal and performance periods; labor relations/performing arts unions; career opportunities; and supporting the vision of the artistic team. Prerequisites: Drama 212E and Drama 240E.
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3.00 Credits
The third of three historical survey courses in theater and performance studies, this course traces the origins of the modern theater. Beginning with Romanticism's self-conscious break with the past, we study the rise of bourgeois melodrama with its intensely emotional rendering of character and spectacular visual effects. We consider how those effects were made possible by advances in industrial stage technology that reproduced the everyday world with unprecedented realism, and how playwrights responded to those technologies by calling for the theater to become either a "total work of art" that plunged its spectators into a mythical realm, or a petri dish that analytically presented the struggles of the modern individual within his or her modern milieu. Exploring a range of aesthetic modes (including melodrama, Realism, Naturalism, Aestheticism, Symbolism, Expressionism, the Epic theater, and the Theatre of the Absurd), we read classic plays by modern playwrights such as Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw, Pirandello, Brecht, and Beckett to consider how the modern theater helped its audiences understand as well as adapt to the rapidly changing conditions of modernity.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course provides the student with a basic understanding of all of the various types of technical drawings needed to successfully execute a scenic design. Throughout the course the student masters all the technical and aesthetic skills needed to produce clean and effective draftings for the theater. In order to successfully complete this class, the student is required to purchase a drafting board and related drafting materials.
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3.00 Credits
A performance-oriented course that explores the black experience through acting, directing, and playwriting. Students do short performances during the semester. They also are required to attend three to five plays. Each student must participate in a final performance in lieu of a written final examination.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on developing the acting, singing, and dancing techniques required for performing in musical theater. The student develops group pieces and participates in scenes that explore character within a musical theater context. The class culminates in a workshop performance. Prerequisites: Drama 221 and permission of instructor, by audition.
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3.00 Credits
Explores a variety of special interest topics in theater and performance studies. Consult the Course Listings.
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