Strong emphasis on breathing exercises and articulation of sounds. Practice will include vocal work on dramatic passages. Every actor must be able to perform comfortably in plays calling for a behavior beyond contemporary manners. Specific principles of each period, and their causes, are studied. Designed to give the actor basic techniques of movement to create a believable spacial environment on stage with the ability to move through that space while maintaining a believable character's physical identity.
Students expand through specially developed exercises to their highest point of expressiveness.
They develop musicality, color, and authority. May be repeated for a total of 10 quarter hours. The history of theatre from its known origins to the present day, focusing on the great ages of the theatre. Covers theatre methods as urged by social conditions, the prevalent methods and styles of the theatre at the given time, and how these were affected by the concerns of the creators of theatre in written or non-written forms. Will include oriental as well as western theatre.