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This course introduces the student to the necessity and value of the Technical Di-rector. In this course, students will gain an understanding of the role of the Tech-nical Director. Specific detail will be given to creating construction drawings, managing and running crews, effectively creating a budget for a production, and solving technical challenges on a per production basis. Students will work on var-ious conceptual plays throughout the semester and will serve as Assistant to the Technical Director on one of the main stage productions, putting into practice what they have learned in the classroom. Prerequisite: THEA 233.
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A study of application techniques for the theatre painter, the course focus is on class projects designed to provide the student with opportunities to handle a wide range of subject matter and to employ a variety of painting methods. Emphasis is placed upon the ability to reproduce details, colors, and styles. Students will learn the role of the scenic artist and their crew. Students will serve on paint crew for all productions throughout the semester.
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In this course students will learn the use of basic equipment (mics, mixers, direc-tional speakers) and computer software used in the creation of a sound design. Students will work in a collaborative fashion in creating various sound designs through exercises and projects over the course of the semester. Students will serve as the sound designers and/or sound technicians for all productions throughout the semester.
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This course focuses on the major painting mediums, styles of illustration, and techniques utilized in the visual presentation of scenic, costume, properties, and lighting designs for the theatre. Prerequisite: THEA 235.
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This is a continuation of the acting skills development begun in Acting I and Acting II. students will apply the techniques learned in previous courses to a variety of scenes from different historical periods ranging from Ancient Greece and Restoration-era England (complemented by French Neoclassicism and Georgian literature) to the commedia dell'arte of the Italian Renaissance, Elizabethan England (some Shakespeare), and major theatrical genres (Absurdism, Expressionism, naturalism, postmodernism, etc...) and playwrights (ex: Noel Coward) of the late 19th and 20th centuries through a variety of exercises and scene work designed to immerse him/her in the performance styles of select historical periods. In addition, lecture material and group discussions will complement assigned readings from the text. Some historical research will also be required of students as will literary analysis of assigned scenes (ex: scene scores, free associative writing, etc) Pre-requisite: THEA 242
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This course is an introduction to improvisational acting techniques leading to self-discovery of the student's potential in imagination, creativity, and spontaneity. Students will learn the foundation of improvisation to help the actor to convey artistically the written text. Exercises will include the works of such individuals as Jacques LeCoq, Jerzy Grotowski, Viola Spolin, Joseph Chaikin, Stephen Wangh, and Keith Johnstone, This course will help equip the actor with the tools to be self-sufficient and to think from the heart without transition.
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Provides a formal theatrical experience in which a play is presented by adults for an audience of children. This course is designed to introduce students to the as-pects of writing, adapting, directing, and primarily, ACTING for children. The challenge is to give a unique theatrical experience to an audience, many of whom will be first time theatre-goers. This course will provide the student with the phi-losophy and methods for theatre performed especially for children and will culmi-nate with the performance of a children's production.
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Not reading him or writing about him but playing him. This course will examine Shakespeare's works from the point of view of performance. Through comprehensive exercises, critical principles such as scansion, phrasing, caesura, breathing, structure and rhythm, antithesis, and more will be covered in detail thereby providing a guide to actors-in-training and anyone interested in examining Shakespeare's works.
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In play analysis, students will analyze the works of playwrights from varying peri-ods of the theatre in order to acquire the ability to break down and interpret dra-matic texts from a conceptual, practical, and analytical approach. A basic play analysis format will be followed, asking a number of questions about each text, while allowing for personal interpretation. A vital element of the course will be participation in all research, discussion, and involvement in the 'virtual' produc-tions of each play and genre studied.
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