Students are expected to prepare and present scenes in class, prepare written scene and character analyses, attend plays, and write performance critiques. This beginning acting course for theatre majors focuses on creativity and imagination. The exercises are designed to engage the mind, body, and voice in theatrical play. Through improvisation students learn the basic elements of dramatic action that culminate in a final performance project. This course develops visual literacy.
Students learn to manipulate line, shape, color, value, texture, and form.
Through the techniques explored, students develop designs for theater. Students are required to keep a daily sketchbook and to furnish art supplies and materials. This is a prerequisite to the design course sequence. This is a concentrated hands-on training course that quickly introduces students to scenery, costume and property construction, and lighting and sound production. Students are shown the stages, shops, tools, equipment, safety procedures and some of the basic techniques involved in producing a live performance.