Course |
THTR 101 Introduction to Acting |
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Professor |
Lynn Hawley |
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CRN |
95207 |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: F |
NEW: PRACTICING
ARTS
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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.
Course |
THTR 101 Introduction to Acting |
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Professor |
Shelley Wyant |
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CRN |
95208 |
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Schedule |
Wed Fr 10:30 - 12:00 pm Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: F |
NEW: PRACTICING
ARTS
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Cross-listed: Integrated Arts
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.
Course |
THTR 101 Introduction to Acting |
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Professor |
Naomi Thornton |
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CRN |
95218 |
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Schedule |
Th 3:20 -5:20 pm Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: F |
NEW: PRACTICING
ARTS
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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.
Course |
THTR 123 Movement for Theater |
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Professor |
Peggy Florin |
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CRN |
95221 |
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Schedule |
Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: F |
NEW: PRACTICING
ARTS
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1
credit Basic
training in movement, rhythm, development of technique and confidence in space.
Course |
THTR 131 Voice for Majors |
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Professor |
Elizabeth Smith |
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CRN |
95205 |
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Schedule |
Tu Fr 1:25 -2:25 pm Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: F |
NEW: PRACTICING
ARTS
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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.
Course |
THTR 132 Voice for Non-Majors |
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Professor |
Elizabeth Smith |
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CRN |
95206 |
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Schedule |
Tu Fr 2:55 -3:55 pm Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: F |
NEW: PRACTICING
ARTS
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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.
Course |
THTR 141A Alexander Technique I |
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Professor |
Judith Youett |
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CRN |
95201 |
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Schedule |
Mon 9:00 - 10:20 am Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: F |
NEW: PRACTICING
ARTS
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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.
Course |
THTR 141 B Alexander Technique I |
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Professor |
Judith Youett |
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CRN |
95202 |
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Schedule |
Fri 9:00 – 10:20 am Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: F |
NEW: PRACTICING
ARTS
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See description above.
Course |
THTR 142 Alexander Technique II |
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Professor |
Judith Youett |
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CRN |
95203 |
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Schedule |
Mon 10:30 – 11:50 am Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: F |
NEW: PRACTICING
ARTS
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1
credit Level II
deepens the study of Alexander Technique including the developmental movements
that children make from birth to upright posture.
Course |
THTR 206 History of Theater |
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Professor |
Jean Wagner |
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CRN |
95220 |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: B/C |
NEW: ANALYSIS
OF ARTS
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Cross-listed: Classical Studies, Theology
4
credits This
course looks at the major periods and forms of Western dramatic literature from
its primal roots, through Greek and Roman Tragedy and Comedy, Medieval Theater,
Tudor Comedy, Renaissance Drama, Commedia dell-arte, Elizabethan Theater, and
the Spanish Golden Age. We will read plays from each of these periods as well
as theoretical and critical writings which will elucidate the social and
aesthetic conditions of the day. This course will provide the student with an
understanding of the development of theater as an art form, and explore how
theater relates to and reflects the intellectual, social, political and
spiritual climate of the broader culture. This course is open to all students,
and a requirement for moderation.
Course |
THTR 207 Playwrighting I |
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Professor |
Chiori Miyagawa |
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CRN |
95212 |
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Schedule |
Wed 1:30 -3:50 pm Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: F |
NEW: PRACTICING
ARTS
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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.
Course |
THTR 207 Playwrighting I |
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Professor |
Dominic Taylor |
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CRN |
95219 |
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Schedule |
Mon 1:30 -3:50 pm Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: F |
NEW: PRACTICING
ARTS
|
See description above.
Course |
THTR 208 Playwrighting II |
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Professor |
Chiori Miyagawa |
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CRN |
95211 |
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Schedule |
Tu 1:30 -3:50 pm Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: F |
NEW: PRACTICING
ARTS
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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.
Course |
THTR 209 Scene Study |
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Professor |
Lynn Hawley |
|
CRN |
95215 |
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Schedule |
Th 1:30 -4:30 pm Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: F |
NEW: PRACTICING
ARTS
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3
credits A course
intended for students who have taken one semester of Intro to Acting and would
like to continue their study. The course deals with a movement from a games
oriented curriculum into work with theatrical texts and discovery of the
processes of scene study.
Course |
THTR 227 Neutral Masks |
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Professor |
Shelley Wyant |
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CRN |
95217 |
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Schedule |
Fr 1:00 -4:00 pm Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: F |
NEW: PRACTICING
ARTS
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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.
Course |
THTR 303 Directing Seminar |
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Professor |
Jonathan Rosenberg |
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CRN |
95204 |
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Schedule |
Tu 9:00 - 12:00 pm Fisher Perf Arts Th 10:30 - 11:50 am Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: F |
NEW: PRACTICING
ARTS
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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.
Course |
THTR 303CO Acting Company |
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Professor |
Jonathan Rosenberg |
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CRN |
95209 |
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Schedule |
Tu 9:00 - 12:00 pm Fisher Perf Arts Th 10:30 - 11:50 am Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: F |
NEW: PRACTICING
ARTS
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4
credits Corresponding
with Directing Seminar, actors work with student directors on scene work for
in-class presentation. Open to first
year students.
Course |
THTR 307 Advanced Acting |
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Professor |
Jonathan Rosenberg |
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CRN |
95395 |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: F |
NEW: PRACTICING
ARTS
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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.
Prerequisites: Intro to Acting
and Scene Study. Maximum enrollment: 12
students.
Course |
THTR 308 Advanced Scene Study |
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Professor |
Naomi Thornton |
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CRN |
95216 |
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Schedule |
Th 1:00 -3:00 pm Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: F |
NEW: PRACTICING
ARTS
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3 credits Scene technique with
work on specific rehearsal tasks as preparation and approach to each rehearsal
and practice of their application. Continued work on the acting instrument,
understanding the actor as artist and deepening the physical, emotional, and
intellectual availability of each actor. Advanced individual exercises, scenes,
and monologues from all dramatic literature. Intended for Upper College Theater
students. Repeatable for credit.
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.
Course |
THTR 310D Survey of Drama: One Arm Tom: Tennessee Williams |
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Professor |
JoAnne Akalaitis |
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CRN |
95214 |
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Schedule |
Wed 1:00 -4:00 pm Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: A |
NEW: ANALYSIS
OF ARTS
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An examination of the work and life of
Tennessee Williams, whom many consider to be our greatest American theater
poet. "I was born in Mississippi
but I got the name of Tennessee when I was going to the University of Iowa
because the fellows in my class could only remember that I was from a southern
state with a long name." Behind
his great wit, famed carousing and embarrassing confessions, Williams was a
compulsive writer ("I couldn't stop writing") who wrote plays,
stories, and novels for more than 50 years, and whose work is still
misunderstood. He seems to be permanently
stuck in the genre of American realism or naturalism. This course will examine how Williams
belongs more authentically to the traditions of European Surrealism and
Expressionism. Williams took theatrical
forms and thoroughly American characters and locales and turned them on their
heads in a beautifully poetic and experimental form that defies American
naturalism. Williams understood the
immense sadness of America, St Louis, the Gulf Coast and the west side of New
York City; he also articulated the frustration and torment of the women
characters he created as a metaphor for his own profound experiences of
rejection as a serious artist. This
course will pursue, among other things-- how Williams' family history,
especially the lobotomy of his sister Rose-- his personal life and his restless
delinquency reside in his work.
Also under consideration: Williams' collaboration with some of the great
artists of the time, including Laurette Taylor, Marlon Brando, Paul Bowles and
Elia Kazan, who created a different Broadway than the one we know
today. A reading every week, including
the great masterpieces but also some of the lesser known one-acts, the
collection of stories One Arm,
memoirs, interviews, film screenings, scene presentations, papers, rigorous
work.
Course |
THTR 310E Survey of Drama: Feminist Theater |
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Professor |
Jean Wagner |
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CRN |
95213 |
|
Schedule |
Mon 1:00 -4:00 pm Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: A |
NEW: ANALYSIS
OF ARTS
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Cross listed:
Gender Studies
A survey of the complex and diverse universe of
theater by women. This course will
begin by exploring the history and roots of feminist theater, the emergence of
the women’s movement and its relationship to feminist theater. Seminal works will be read from the
precursors of feminist drama, including early twentieth century playwrights
such as Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Sophia Treadwell, Marita Bonner and the
early writings of Doris Lessing. In
addition, we will explore collaborative feminist theater from the sixties,
seventies and beyond, and the emergence of Caryl Churchill as one of the most
important and original voices in theater today. Finally, we will read works by major women playwrights and
performance artists of the latter half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st
centuries including Adrienne Kennedy, Maria Irene Fornez, Suzan-Lori Parks,
Karen Finley, Laurie Anderson, Anna Deavere Smith, and the recently deceased
young writer Sarah Kane. This course
will encompass a wide variety of theatrical styles and genres, from the
fractured reality of the modernist Gertrude Stein to the Harlem Renaissance to
contemporary non-traditional performance modes. Additional readings in feminist literary theory, political theory
and history will be assigned and scene work will be required.
Course |
THTR 340 Voice in Performance |
|
Professor |
Elizabeth Smith |
|
CRN |
95409 |
|
Schedule |
Fr 10:30 - 12:30 pm Fisher Perf Arts |
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Distribution |
OLD: F |
NEW: PRACTICING
ARTS
|
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.