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  • THEA 342: Improv Acting Techniques

    3.00 Credits
    King's College - Pennsylvania

    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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  • THEA 343: Children's Theatre

    3.00 Credits
    King's College - Pennsylvania

    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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  • THEA 344: Playing Shakespeare

    3.00 Credits
    King's College - Pennsylvania

    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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  • THEA 345: Play Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    King's College - Pennsylvania

    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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  • THEA 347: Comedy Acting

    3.00 Credits
    King's College - Pennsylvania

    This objective of this course is to focus on issues of acting in comedy by address-ing the problems that confront the actor when rehearsing and performing in realis-tic comedy play scripts. Our secondary emphasis is using improvisational, non-theatrical, and original material for developing comedy skills. Participation as an actor is mandatory.
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  • THEA 361: Scene Design I

    3.00 Credits
    King's College - Pennsylvania

    The role of the scenic designer will be discussed in depth through lecture and practical work. Students will learn how to create detailed design packets that in-clude: draftings (hand and CAD), painter's elevations, properties breakdowns and research, concept sketches, final renderings, and models. Students will work on assigned production projects over the course of the semester, completing full packages for each production. A final portfolio review will be held at the end of each semester. Students will display their work for feedback from the instructor and theatre faculty members. Prerequisite: THEA 235.
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  • THEA 365: Voice and Movement

    3.00 Credits
    King's College - Pennsylvania

    The course is an introduction to voice and movement techniques for performance. The course is based primarily on the works of Kristin Linklater, Trish Arnold, F. M. Alexander, and Patsy Rodenburg. Beginning with the groundwork for vocal work, i.e., a released breath and an ability to speak simply and with conviction and then progressing into the connection between sound and emotions, the goal of the course is to create an honest and expressive voice, one that connects the actor to his/her inner life and accurately reflects that inner life to the exterior world.
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  • THEA 367: Advanced Technical Practices

    3.00 Credits
    King's College - Pennsylvania

    Engineering for the theatre is a creative and innovative process. In this course stu-dents will learn the basics of more advanced stage machinery such as fly systems, moving scenery, automated scenery, and non traditional stage construction materi-als. Students will break down complex designs on paper in order to implement the most elegant solution to the practical problem of creation. Students will work on fully realized projects and will serve as either an ATD or as coordinator of special projects for productions throughout the semester. Prerequisite: THEA 233
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  • THEA 381: History of the Theatre I

    3.00 Credits
    King's College - Pennsylvania

    This course is a survey of Western theatre practice and dramatic texts from the Greeks into the Renaissance. Students examine, in addition to the dramatic texts of the period, the impact of performance spaces, aesthetic theories, religious beliefs, and the contemporary politics of a given era on the development of drama.
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  • THEA 382: History of the Theatre II

    3.00 Credits
    King's College - Pennsylvania

    This course is a survey of Western theatre practice and dramatic texts from the 17th into the 19th century. Students examine, in addition to the dramatic texts of the period, the impact of performance spaces, aesthetic theories, religious beliefs, and the contemporary politics of a given era on the development of drama. Students are not required to take THEA 381 and THEA 382 sequentially.
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