Scene Design An approach to designing for the theater. Research of genres including Western and Eastern traditions. Not offered in 2000-01. THR 3136x Costume and Mask Workshop Visual interpretation of script and character through costume and mask construction, drawing, painting and sculpting. Comparative analysis of world theater traditions.
Final project is class performance.
The ideas and performance techniques of selected western theater artists and theorists, from the Greeks to the present. The shifting relationship between the visual and the verbal in the theater and its implications for social and theatrical change. Playwrights include Jerrold, Scribe, Taylor, Robertson, Ibsen, Pinero, Wilde, Shaw, and Robins. Not offered in 2000-01. The dramatic text as theatrical event.