Understanding is developed both through class work and final performance projects in which groups of students produce sequences from the scripts studied during the semester. This course is the foundation of the Department's acting program. In it, the student explores how an actor gives life to words and moves them from the script to performance. Students work with Shakespeare's sonnets in addition to contemporary literature. Not available to juniors and seniors without permission of the instructor.
Enrollment is limited.
In addition to lectures there will be demonstrations in class as well as labs, during which the students work on productions. Some materials must be purchased by the student for this course. Enrollment is limited. This is an applied course for technicians, designers, and managers who are on production crews directed, designed, or directly supervised by the theater faculty. In order to complete a theater major, a student must complete production laboratories in two separate areas.