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2.00 Credits
Course brings Design and Directing majors together to work on advanced projects. Teams develop a piece (theatrical, operatic, or musical) from concept through presentation. Designers create renderings, models, or story boards. Directors keep a process book. Projects include research of past productions and production theory. 2 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 31-2610 SET DESIGN OR 31-2615 COSTUME DESIGN OR 31-2620 LIGHTING DESIGN
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3.00 Credits
Course enables students to design productions within the department and under faculty supervision. Students repeat the course three times in the following sequence: assistant designer to a main stage production; designer of a Directing II project; designer of a main stage production. This sequence allows students to gain skills at each level in order to support the next level's activities. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 31-2610 SET DESIGN OR 31-2615 COSTUME DESIGN OR 31-2620 LIGHTING DESIGN
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
1-6 CREDITS
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3.00 Credits
With instructor approval, students select one act of less than 45 minutes to direct. Student casts play from the Theater Department student body, directs the play, and mounts four performances in the Classic Studio. Rehearsals are held outside class hours and determined by director and cast. All areas of directing are discussed among students and instructors with occasional guest directors, actors, and designers. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 31-1600 INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN FOR THE STAGE, 31-2530 STAGE MANAGEMENT, 31-2700 DIRECTING I
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3.00 Credits
With instructor approval, students select a full-length play to direct. Students cast play from the Theater Department student body, direct the play ($100 budget), and mount four performances. Rehearsals are held outside class hours and determined by director and cast. Students may be asked occasionally to be assistant directors for main season shows. All areas of directing are discussed in class and with occasional guests. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 31-3125 DRAMATURGY, 31-3700 DIRECTING I
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3.00 Credits
Students will direct full length plays chosen to stretch the theatrical range of the student or to deepen their exploration of a specific style of theater. Within the production process, students will polish techniques of staging, text analysis, integration of design, presentation of the work to the public, and documentation. Students will use these advanced directing projects to build resumes and portfolios towards future work or graduate school. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 31-3701 DIRECTING III
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4.00 Credits
Course covers continued development of plays initiated in Playwriting I or transformation of other written forms (poems, fiction, or film) into dramatic events for stage. Students must complete one act of a play. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 31-2800 PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP I
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4.00 Credits
Students will develop a full-length script through a series of writing explorations that aim to develop the material from different points of view. Students will experience various written and collaborative exercises to deepen their understanding of story and situation. Play readings from a variety of styles and genres increase student understanding of the range of approaches to playwriting. Concurrent enrollment in New Plays Workshop provides a performance workshop for students to develop their writing in collaboration with actors and directors. 4 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 31-3800 PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP II
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3.00 Credits
Playwriting students will work collaboratively with actors, designers, and directors to bring their 10-minute and short one-act plays to the stage. Drafts of short plays, written and developed in Playwriting I and II will be read, workshopped, and developed, in a process modeled on professional play development, with professional directors from the Chicago community, advanced student directors, and advanced student actors. Students will experience how collaboration directly informs the writing and rewriting process. The semester will culminate in staged readings of the rewritten short plays presented in one of the studio theatres during performance week. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 31-3800 PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP II
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3.00 Credits
Through various writing exercises the students will experiment with generating their own written material, whether it be autobiographical, character driven, or a literary adaptation. They will learn how to present their personal work in monologue form with the focus on culminating in one five minute solo performance piece, to be presented during performance week. Students will also be exposed to the work of various contemporary solo performance artists. There will be some journal writing as well as weekly writing assignments. 3 CREDITS PREREQUISITES: 31-1305 BODY MOVEMENT FOR ACTORS I OR 52-1111 WRITING AND RHETORIC I - ESL WRITING AND RHETORIC I, 31-2200 ACTING II: ADVANCED SCENE STUDY, 31-2300 VOICE TRAINING FOR THE ACTOR II, 52-1151 WRITING AND RHETORIC I
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