Students will be encouraged to see live theatre and develop critical skills as informed audience members and confident critics. This course is designed to provide student actors with an uninhibited awareness of body control and to instruct them on the use of their bodies as an instrument for conveying the works of a playwright to an audience. This is a practical course in theatre production. There will be active involvement as actor, production assistant or technician in a College production to be performed before a live audience. This is an advanced course in techniques of acting, reading, interpretation and enactment of selected scenes from major works and short plays.
Emphasis is placed on development of character and ensemble playing.
This is a practical workshop where students practice the basic techniques learned in THEA 111. This course will stress the reading and interpretation of prose, drama and poetry, as well as the use of dialects in performance. This is a survey course which explores theatre from the 17th Century to the 20th Century. This course will examine shifts in theatrical paradigms through discussion and study of representative plays. Students will be encouraged to see live theatre and develop critical skills as informed audience members and confident critics.