This course will provide students an opportunity to explore theatrical design with special emphasis on the collaborative development of design solutions and the support that design elements provide to the theatrical narratives. Students will build skills in visual and verbal communication, design visualization, script analysis and creative idea development. Assigned projects will include activity in a multiple traditional fields of design (scenery, costumes, lighting, properties and/or sound). Prerequisites: 230. May be repeated once for credit with permission.
This course will provide students an opportunity to explore theatrical design with special emphasis on the collaborative development of design solutions and the support that design elements provide to the theatrical narratives. Students will build skills in visual and verbal communication, design visualization, script analysis and creative idea development. Assigned projects will include activity in a multiple traditional fields of design (scenery, costumes, lighting, properties and/or sound). Prerequisites: 230. May be repeated once for credit with permission.
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. AE
This course will explore and develop the foundations, principles and skills related to improvisational theatre, including the realm of communication skills role-play and feedback facilitation. Prerequisite: 207.
This is an experiential, movement-based acting class designed to cultivate physical strength, flexibility, and expressiveness in the actor. Through exercises and explorations, students will increase awareness of their own physical use and expand their movement vocabulary. Students will discover that words alone can sometimes be deceiving, but the body never lies. Prerequisites: 107, 155.
In this advanced-level acting course students will explore acting styles and techniques needed to perform plays from a variety of historical periods and genres. Through research, monologue, and scene study students will be challenged to expand their physical, vocal, and emotional range to create characters appropriate to a play's period style. Prerequisites: 107, 121, 207, 217, 227.
This course is designed to give the student a comprehensive understanding of stage managment and an opportunity to apply that understanding as a part of the stage management team. Through advanced problem solving techniques and group organizational dynamics, students will apply their understanding of basic management theories as they relate to the profession. Students will be provided with an overview of stage management and the fundamental skills it demands, through both simulated and practical exercises. The use of computers in the field will be addressed.
This course is a hands-on learning experience in theatre production. Students will gain practical skills and essential knowledge of what it takes to mount a production for the stage by working in various production areas such as: scenic, lighting, costumes, props, stage management, or backstage production crew. The specific area will be assigned by theatre faculty at the start of the semester taking into consideration each student's experience, their educational needs, and the technical needs of each production. Graded CR/NC. Two credit registration requires instructor approval.
Through weekly reading and discussion, this course explores plays and playwrights that are at the forefront of the American professional theatre repertory. Content is adjusted to reflect new plays in the expanding canon as well as older texts that are regularly revived for production. LA
Advanced non-classroom experiences in the field of theatre. Placements are off-campus, and may be full- or part-time, and with or without pay. Credit for experiences must be sought prior to occurance, and learning contracts must be submitted to the theatre faculty before the end of the first week of the semester. See the experiential learning: internship section of this catalog for more details. Restricted to theatre majors and minors. Permission of department required. Graded CR/NC.