CRN |
94437 |
Distribution |
F */
(Practicing Art) |
Course
No. |
THTR 101 A |
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Title |
Introduction
to Acting |
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Professor |
Lynn Hawley |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am Fisher Ctr |
3
credits This
course, intended for prospective theater majors, focuses on accessing the
beginning actor’s imagination and creative energy. Using theater games, movement work, and improvisational
techniques, the intent is to expand the boundaries of accepted logic and to
encourage risk-taking in the actor.
Course work includes intensive classroom sessions, individual projects
designed to promote self-discovery, and group projects focused on the process of
collaborative work.
CRN |
94438 |
Distribution |
F */ (Practicing Art) |
Course
No. |
THTR 101 B |
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Title |
Introduction
to Acting |
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Professor |
Lynn Hawley |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 11:30 am - 12:50 pm Fisher Ctr |
3
credits See
description above.
CRN |
94439 |
Distribution |
F */ (Practicing Art) |
Course
No. |
THTR 101 C |
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Title |
Introduction
to Acting |
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Professor |
Naomi Thornton |
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Schedule |
Th 3:20 pm - 5:20 pm Fisher
Ctr |
2
credits Scene
preparation and beginning scene technique.
Emphasis on relaxation, breathing, and concentration. Teaching the actor to make choices and
implement them using sense memory and to integrate this work with the
text. Group and individual exercises
and improvisations. Continuous work on the acting instrument stressing freedom,
spontaneity, and individual attention. Materials: poems, monologues, stories,
and scenes. Reading of American plays,
1930 to present.
CRN |
94440 |
Distribution |
F */ (Practicing Art) |
Course
No. |
THTR 131 A |
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Title |
Voice
for Majors |
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Professor |
Elizabeth Smith |
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Schedule |
Tu Fr 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Fisher
Ctr |
2
credits This course
is designed to develop an awareness of the importance of physical relaxation,
breath capacity and control, resonance and placement. There will also be an emphasis on clarity of articulation and the
use of vocal range and inflection. This
course is intended for moderated and prospective theater majors.
CRN |
94441 |
Distribution |
F */ (Practicing Art) |
Course
No. |
THTR 131 B |
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Title |
Voice
for Non-Majors |
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Professor |
Elizabeth Smith |
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Schedule |
Tu Fr 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Fisher
Ctr |
2
credits This
course will concentrate on basic voice and speech work to enable the students
to communicate with greater clarity and confidence. Some of the demands of speaking in public will also be addressed.
CRN |
94442 |
Distribution |
F */ (Practicing Art) |
Course
No. |
THTR 141 A |
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Title |
Alexander
Technique |
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Professor |
Judith Youett |
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Schedule |
Mon 9:30 am - 11:00 am Fisher Ctr |
1
credit. A
world-respected technique developed over 100 years ago; the Alexander Technique
is a valuable tool for performers, writers, scholars, and artists. It is a simple and practical approach to
improving balance, coordination and movement.
During this course we will learn about habits of thinking and moving
that cause stress and fatigue. This
awareness will enable different choices to be made in ourselves and how we
respond to the environment. Register
for one 90-minute group per week, THTR 141A or THTR 141B.
CRN |
94443 |
Distribution |
F */ (Practicing Art) |
Course
No. |
THTR 141 B |
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Title |
Alexander
Technique |
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Professor |
Judith Youett |
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Schedule |
Wed 9:30 am - 11:00 am Fisher Ctr |
1 credit. See description above.
CRN |
94444 |
Distribution |
F */ (Practicing Art) |
Course
No. |
THTR 142 |
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Title |
Alexander
Technique II |
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Professor |
Judith Youett |
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Schedule |
Mon 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Fisher Ctr |
1
credit Level II
deepens the study of Alexander Technique including the developmental movements
that children make from birth to upright posture.
CRN |
94447 |
Distribution |
F */ (Practicing Art) |
Course
No. |
THTR 207 |
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Title |
Playwrighting
I |
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Professor |
Dominic Taylor |
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Schedule |
Tu 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm Fisher
Ctr |
4
credits An
introductory course that focuses on discovering the writer’s voice. Through
writing exercises based on dreams, visual images, poetry, social issues, found
text, and music, each writer is encouraged to find his or her unique language,
style, and vision. A group project will
explore the nature of collaborative works.
Students learn elements of playwriting through writing a one-act play,
reading assignments, and class discussions.
CRN |
94448 |
Distribution |
F */ (Practicing Art) |
Course
No. |
THTR 208 |
||
Title |
Playwrighting
II |
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Professor |
Dominic Taylor |
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Schedule |
Wed 10:00 am - 12:50 pm Fisher Ctr |
4
credits This
course will function as a writer’s workshop. After writing a short play,
students focus on developing a full-length play, with sections of the
work-in-progress presented in class for discussions. Students grow as
playwrights by being exposed to diverse dramatic literature and doing a short
adaptation project either of a classic play or a short story.
Prerequisite: Playwrighting I.
CRN |
94446 |
Distribution |
A */ (Analysis of Art) |
Course
No. |
THTR 211 |
||
Title |
History
of Theater II |
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Professor |
Jean Wagner |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 305 |
4
credits This
course looks at the major periods of dramatic literature, from the renaissance
to the twentieth century. Plays will be read with particular reference to
historical context and dramatic convention informing theater practice during
these periods. Along with the plays, we’ll look at critical and theoretical
essays that elucidate these social and aesthetic conditions. Playwrights will include Moliere, Ibsen,
Chekhov, Brecht and Beckett.
CRN |
94449 |
Distribution |
F */ (Practicing Art) |
Course
No. |
THTR 227 |
||
Title |
Neutral
Masks |
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Professor |
Shelley Wyant |
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Schedule |
Mon 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Fisher
Ctr |
2
credits The roots
of mask work come from a diverse system of traditions including the Balinese,
the great teachers and the theorists Pierre LeFevre, Michel St. Denis, Jaques
LeCoq and Francis Delsarte. Neutral Masks
is an exploration of the world of the mask and all the freedom it has to offer
performers, using tools of breath and focus.
Students learn to identify the elements that contribute to physical
expression.
Prerequisite: Introduction to Acting
CRN |
94450 |
Distribution |
F */ (Practicing Art) |
Course
No. |
THTR 228 |
||
Title |
Character
Mask |
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Professor |
Shelley Wyant |
||
Schedule |
Wed 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Fisher
Ctr |
2
credits. Building
on the work of Neutral Mask, students will work with masks that have very
stylized and recognizable expressions.
This leads the performer into liberation behind the mask that assists in
the development of characters. Through
the body, the story of the person in the mask is explored.
CRN |
94452 |
Distribution |
F */
(Practicing Art) |
Course
No. |
THTR 303 |
||
Title |
Directing
Seminar |
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Professor |
Rebecca
Guy |
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Schedule |
Mon 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Fisher
Ctr Wed 10:00 am - 11:30
am Fisher Ctr |
4 credits This is a studio course that covers the practice of directing from text analysis, “table work”, imagining the world of the play, design, casting, space, rehearsal and blocking in different configurations. The work will proceed from scenes to a full-length work. By permission of the instructor.
CRN |
94453 |
Distribution |
F */ (Practicing Art) |
Course
No. |
THTR 303CO |
||
Title |
Acting
Company |
||
Professor |
Rebecca Guy |
||
Schedule |
Mon 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Fisher
Ctr Wed 10:00
am - 11:30 am Fisher Ctr |
4 credits Corresponding with Directing Seminar, actors work with student directors on scene work for in-class presentation. Open to first year students.
CRN |
94455 |
Distribution |
F */ (Practicing Art) |
Course
No. |
THTR 327 A |
||
Title |
Advanced
Acting |
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Professor |
Lynn Hawley |
||
Schedule |
Wed 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Fisher
Ctr |
4
credits This is
a studio acting class where students will explore scenes from challenging plays
of varied styles. Extensive rehearsal
time outside of class is required.
Pre-requisites: Intro to Acting and Scene
Study. Maximum enrollment: 12 students.
CRN |
94456 |
Distribution |
F */ (Practicing Art) |
Course
No. |
THTR 327 B |
||
Title |
Advanced
Acting |
||
Professor |
Naomi Thornton |
||
Schedule |
Th 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Fisher
Ctr |
3
credits Scene
Technique with work on specific rehearsal tasks and practice of their
application. Continued work on the acting instrument, understanding the actor
as artist and deepening the physical, emotional, intellectual connection and
availability of each actor. Advanced individual exercises, scenes, and
monologues from all dramatic literature. Intended for Upper College students,
others by permission. Repeatable for credit.
Prerequisite: Introduction to Acting
CRN |
94457 |
Distribution |
F */
(Practicing Art) |
Course
No. |
THTR 340 |
||
Title |
Voice
in Performance |
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Professor |
Elizabeth Smith |
||
Schedule |
Fr 11:00 am - 12:50 pm Fisher Ctr |
2
credits This course is designed for those students who
have already had some training in voice and will concentrate on addressing
demands which occur in performance such as speaking over underscoring,
sustaining dialogue in fights or dances, and developing power and range. Technical exercises will be used to promote
coordination of speech and movement.
Survey of Drama courses study the major styles and
periods in drama from a literary, stylistic, and performance perspective, and
are at the center of the Theater Program. They are practical courses, applying
text to scene work. All theater majors are expected to take three courses over
two years from the Survey of Drama. Each
course carries 4 credits.
CRN |
94454 |
Distribution |
B */ (
Lit in English) |
Course
No. |
THTR 310 A |
||
Title |
Survey
of Drama:The Greeks |
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Professor |
JoAnne Akalaitis |
||
Schedule |
Mon 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Fisher
Ctr |
Cross-listed:
Classical Studies
4
credits The
three great Greek playwrights, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides created
drama that is the greatest source of inspiration in the history of
theater. They are the inventors of
Western drama. These playwrights
created a unique form of theater that combines music, poetry, and chorus,
psychologically complex characters and mercurial gods that intersect to create
“the tragic event" in dramatic form.
The stories in our terms are epic, enormous, enlarged versions of
repeated tales of family, love, blood feuds, war, human sacrifice and
transformation, using the most economical of means, little action on
stage, central characters and chorus
who usually tell of a violent action offstage.
This dramatic form has never since been duplicated yet it has continual
resonance in modern theater (consider the many adaptations of Greek plays) This
course will study Athenian tragedy in the context of playwrights who commanded
the attention of the entire community and dramatized visions of issues that
affected their society. Special consideration
will be given to the social and political context of the plays, the creation of
powerful women characters who act between the extremes of good and evil, and
the chorus which changed significantly from the relative simplicity of
Aeschylus to the radical experimentation of Euripides. Readings include: The
first extant trilogy, The Oresteia by
Aeschylus, Sophocles' Oedipus Cycle
and Philoctetes, Iphegenia in Aulis and Taurus,
The Bacchae and Media by Euripides.
Knowledge of Aristotle’s' Poetics
is required. Open to lower and upper college students.
Scene works, papers, and a visit to Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
CRN |
94154 |
Distribution |
B */ (Lit in English) |
Course
No. |
LIT 2503 |
||
Title |
Studies
in Shakespeare |
||
Professor |
Elizabeth Frank |
||
Schedule |
Wed Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 203 |
Cross-listed: Theater
This course will be an intensive examination of
selected plays in every genre in which Shakespeare wrote: comedy, tragedy,
history and romance. Although we will
remain open to a variety of approaches and questions, we will ground our
discussion throughout the semester in the close reading of actual texts. Plays include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Troilus and Cressida, Hamlet, King Lear,
Henry IV (Parts I and II), Richard III, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest.