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
This course examines and applies the fundamentals of play direction: play selection, casting, blocking, movement, interpretation, and production organization. Prerequisites: 225.
The focus of this advanced-level acting class is learning the play Shakespeare. Students will explore and strengthen the actor's basic tools (body, voice and imagination) as they learn to analyze text for playable clues to character and circumstance. Specific attention will be given to understanding scansion and learning to identify basic figures of speech that will increase understanding, strengthen character development, and above all, help the actor play with clarity, purpose, and humanity. Prerequisites: 107, 121, 207.
This course continues exploration of the physiological and phonetic foundations of voice for the actor. Students will extend the use of voice and body to play heighten language texts, and learn to use the International Phonetic Alphabet as a tool for dialect study. Prerequisite: 121.
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 covers the basics of sound use in live performance venues. System design, assembly, and use are discussed, as well as some theory and applicable electrical principles.
Particular problems relating to theatre, music, dance, and presenting organizations will be addressed in this introductory course. Contractual agreements, balancing the necessities of performers and technical staff, scheduling, touring, and coping with performance situations in a presenting house will be addressed. Arts education and outreach and planning repertoire and program development, both artistically and financially, will be included. Prerequisite: AADM 200. (Equivalent to AADM 300.)
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.