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4.00 Credits
This is an advanced acting class that explores comic performance from the classical French, Italian, and Spanish traditions. Scenes from the plays of Goldoni, Gozzi, Moliere, Marivaux, Beaumarchais, and Cervantes will be analyzed and performed. In addition, the study of the stock Commedia dell'Arte characters (Arlecchino, Pantalone, Brighella, Dottore, Capitano, etc.) will allow the actor to improvise with masks in order to expand vocal and physical abilities. Students in the class are required to write and perform contemporary scenes in the style of the Commedia, and elements of comedy will be researched through the viewing of current films and plays in order to trace the influence of this tradition on contemporary practice. A final performance will take place in a community venue. Prerequisite: THR 251 Acting II: Scene Study
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4.00 Credits
This course, advanced in nature, will explore topics chosen by the instructor and may include focus on two or more aspects of the following: mask work, clowning, scene work from nonlinear texts, spatial and sound awareness, ensemble and group work, agitprop and overtly political theatre, the major avantgarde movements, and performance art and autobiographical theatre. Readings will be chosen from diverse plays and theoretical texts. Films may be shown as an example of exploration into style and text. The exact focus of the class will be explained prior to registration. Class will meet for four hours per week. Prerequisite: THR 251 Acting II: Scene Study
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4.00 Credits
Advanced work in production conceptualization and a discussion of the design process in relation to the demands of period drama. Students will study the historical development of architecture and period décor. Students will work to hone drafting and rendering skills. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: THR 260 Scene Design I
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4.00 Credits
Continuing study in the practice of lighting design for the stage with principal emphasis on aesthetics and interpretation and discussion of lighting as an art form and its effect upon other aspects of theatre. Drafting as it relates to the completion of lighting plots and the associated paperwork will be taught. Class projects as well as concentrated involvement in actual productions will be required. Offered in alternate years. Prerequisite: THR 261 Stage Lighting I
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4.00 Credits
Continued study in the practice of costume design for the stage with principal emphasis on advanced work with period style and historical research. Practice with advanced techniques in patterning, draping, and cutting. Advanced work in designer communication techniques: creatively including figure drawing, rendering, and swatching organizationally including costume plots, budgeting, and production books. Crew work will be required. Prerequisite: THR 262 Costume Design I
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4.00 Credits
This class introduces the art form of theatre directing. Students learn key directorial concepts, focusing especially on issues of plot, character, space, and sound. A series of compact, supervised projects give students the opportunity to develop their abilities with these and other tools. In addition to teaching the basics of craft, the course presumes that directing is an expressive art form. Subsidiary concerns of the class will include the history of directing, models of rehearsal, directorial text analysis, and contemporary directing theory. Meets four hours per week. Prerequisite: THR 251 Acting II: Scene Study
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4.00 Credits
This is an experiential course that explores the process of bringing the play text to the stage. Working as an ensemble of actors and directors, the class will confront the challenges of production conceptualization, text analysis, problems in physical staging, and collaborative process. Each student will participate as a director and actor in the mounting of several oneact plays in the course of the semester. Members of the class will also produce two production prompt books based on their work as directors. Meets four hours per week. Prerequisite: THR 251 Acting II: Scene Study
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the ideas and techniques of one or more major theatre directors. Though the class will touch upon the historical development of each artist, it concentrates on the conceptual and practical bases of their work. Students will read and write about these signal figures and create many new theatrical projects inspired by them. Extensive collaboration will be expected. The directors studied will change from semester to semester but might include Vsevolod Meyerhold, Bertolt Brecht, Joan Littlewood, Tadevsz Kantor, or Arianne Mnouchkine, Meets four hours per week. Prerequisite: THR 251 Acting II: Scene Study or permission of the instructor
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4.00 Credits
This course examines a specialized topic in the field of theatre or performance studies. Possible subjects include popular entertainments, queer performance, or street theatre. Prerequisite: A THR 100 level and one additional theatre course or permission of the instructor. Meets general academic requirement W when offered as 401.
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4.00 Credits
This intensive laboratory course explores the ideas and techniques of one or more advanced approaches to performance. This studio class concentrates on topics such as Advanced Problems in Acting/Emotional Techniques Artists at the Reins: Imagining a Life in the Theatre Acting in Film and Other Media Acting the Song and Acting on the Edge: Beckett, Ionesco, and others. Films may be shown as examples of techniques. Class will meet four hours per week. Prerequisite: THR 251 Acting II: Scene Study
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