The course includes viewing and critiquing plays, musicals, motion pictures, television and radio dramas. A brief outline of the history of the theater from ancient to modern times. Theater terminology is examined. A beginning course in the essential elements of acting. The course includes techniques of speech and movement on the stage, pantomime and character analysis.
Students prepare and present laboratory scenes.
A continuation of DRAM1351. This course includes voice training and body movement as related to the creation of a character on the stage. Both classical and modern styles of acting are examined. A further application of the theories in practice. Emphasis is placed on laboratory experience in the performing arts.