Students will consider the range of materials, techniques, budgetary and logistical factors pertinent to technical production of the stage play. Focused on the means and methods of enhancing or altering the performer's appearance for live or recorded performance. Masks and puppets are also examined as extensions and modifications of the actor's presence. A course which emphasizes oral performance as a means of studying literary works. The process of performing different modes and genres offers the student an integrative approach to revealing, demonstrating and understanding various aspects of literature, e.g., persona, narrative voice, imagery, poetic structure.
Attention is given to dramatic analysis of the works performed.
A course providing students a workshop environment, in which they analyze, rehearse and perform dramatic characters and scenes in various styles. Representative plays from Greece to the present will be studied with some attention given to non-Westem forms. Attention is given to principles for selecting, planning, organizing, budgeting, as well as staging dramatic and musical productions. The course is useful for those interested in drama in school settings. Auditioning A course designed to enable students to prepare for auditions, to know professional auditioning procedures and practice, and to develop their auditioning skills by performance demonstration with in-class critiques, using monologues, cold dramatic readings, song, and dance.