THEATER

CRN

10167

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 102 LH1

Title

Introduction to Acting

Professor

Lynn Hawley

Schedule

Tu Th 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Drama Studio

2 credits This year-long 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. Students must enroll for two consecutive semesters to receive four credits for the year.

CRN

10463

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 102 LH2

Title

Introduction to Acting

Professor

Lynn Hawley

Schedule

Tu Th 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Drama Studio
See description above.

CRN

10168

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 102 NT

Title

Introduction to Acting (American Method)

Professor

Naomi Thornton

Schedule

Th 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Studio West

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 the present.

CRN

10161

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 122

Title

Movement for Actors

Professor

Jean Churchill

Schedule

Mon 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Drama Studio

1 credit Basic training in movement, analysis, rhythm, development of technique and confidence in space.

CRN

10164

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 132

Title

Voice

Professor

Elizabeth Smith

Schedule

Fri 9:30 am - 11:00 Drama Studio

2 credits This course develops awareness of physical equipment, natural pitch, purity of vowels and consonants, tone, inflection, diction, agility, nuance, and vocal imagination.

CRN

10166

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 142

Title

Alexander Technique I

Professor

Judith Youett

Schedule

Wed 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Studio West

1 credit A world respected technique for body investigation, alignment and relaxation, the Alexander Technique is a valuable tool for performers, writers, scholars, and artists. This is a kinesthetic reeducation that provides a means of monitoring and eliminating self-created tension in order not to interfere with the creative process.

CRN

10169

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 202 NT

Title

Studio in Acting (American Method)

Professor

Naomi Thornton

Schedule

Th 1:20 pm - 3:20 pm Studio West

2 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.

Prerequisite: Introduction to Acting

CRN

10162

Distribution

B/C

Course No.

THTR 206

Title

History of Theater

Professor

Kathleen Dimmick

Schedule

Mon 10:30 am - 12:50 pm Studio West

4 credits, This survey course looks at the major periods of dramatic literature, from Ancient Greece 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.

CRN

10172

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 207

Title

Playwrighting I

Professor

Chiori Miyagawa

Schedule

Tu 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm Studio West

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

10173

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 208

Title

Playwrighting II

Professor

Chiori Miyagawa

Schedule

Tu 4:00 pm - 6:20 pm Studio West

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

10171

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 216

Title

Physical Comedy

Professor

Christopher Bayes

Schedule

Fri 10:30 am - 12:50 pm Studio West

2 credits, Beginning with exercises in broad physicality, balance, rhythm, discovery, physical mask and surprise, this class explores what about the individual student is unique and funny. When we begin to forget what is an appropriate response, and imagine what we would be like if we were never socialized, we begin to discover "the clown" that lives in each of us. By embracing the archetypes of childhood and reclaiming the "internal response" without the diminishing filter of socialization, we start to lose the inhibitions that block us from being purely expressive. This class encourages openness, invention, playfulness, generosity, sensitivity, and courage

Prerequisite: Introduction to Acting

CRN

10179

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 226

Title

Opera

Professor

Arthur Burrows / Jeffrey Sichel

Schedule

Wed 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Studio West

4 credits Open only to performers cast in the current year's opera production. Students learn to sing and act parts in the opera, and the relevant dramaturgical background of the production.

CRN

10461

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 227

Title

Neutral Masks

Professor

Shelley Wyant

Schedule

Mon 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Studio West

2 credits, The roots of masks come from a diverse system of traditions: the Balinese, the great teachers and the theorists Michel St. Denis and Jacques LeCoq, Francis Delsarte. Two

courses are intended to be taken in sequence; in Neutral Masks, students learn to identify physical elements that contribute to a range of characters and physical expression.

Prerequisite: Introduction to Acting

CRN

10174

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 228

Title

Character Mask

Professor

Shelley Wyant

Schedule

Tu 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Drama Studio

2 credits In Character Mask, students work with masks that have very stylized and recognizable expressions which leads the actor to a liberation behind the mask, developing character in the body and the story of the person in the mask.

Prerequisite: Neutral Mask

CRN

10165

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 231

Title

Voice and Verse

Professor

Elizabeth Smith

Schedule

Fri 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Drama Studio

2 credits Verse is a significant part of drama and learning to interpret it and speak it is essential for the performer. This course deals with verse from the great poets and dramatists. Prerequisite: Voice

CRN

10464

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 235

Title

Alexander Technique II

Professor

Judith Youett

Schedule

Wed 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Studio East

1 credit Prerequisite: Alexander Technique I and permission of instructor.

CRN

10170

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 304

Title

Directing Seminar II

Professor

JoAnne Akalaitis

Schedule

Wed 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm Drama Studio

4 credits A year-long 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 for public presentation.

CRN

10175

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 307

Title

Advanced Scene Study

Professor

Erin Mee

Schedule

Wed 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Drama Studio

3 credits It is important for the actor to be in an intimate studio situation, in the pure process of scene study, to learn how to break down a scene, understand its "beats" and go for emotional depth without concern for the product. This is the actor's research lab. Intended for Upper-College theater students.

CRN

10476

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 310

Title

Survey of Drama: TBA

Professor

TBA

Schedule

TBA

CRN

10163

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 314

Title

Survey of Drama: Comedy

Professor

Lynn Hawley

Schedule

Fri 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Studio West

4 credits 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 four courses over two years from the Survey of Drama. This semester the course will explore the theater tradition of Commedia dell'Arte and the contemporary comedic actor. Works from such comic masters as Shakespeare, Moliere, Gozzi, Wilde, Feydeau, Coward, Orton, Churchill, Ives, and Durang will be studied and discussed with the practical view of how an actor approaches the text. Selected scenes will be rehearsed and performed in class.

CRN

10178

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 318

Title

Visual Imagination of the Modern Stage

Professor

Jennifer Tipton

Schedule

Th 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm Drama Studio

2 credits A course taught by leading designers and directors in the field. It examines the explosive prominence of visionary visual ideas on the stage in the past 30 years, the emergence of a new form of collaboration between directors and designers and the inclusion of the new media on the stage. This course is required for upper-college theater students.

CRN

10186

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 319

Title

Dramaturgy

Professor

Robert Rockman

Schedule

To be arranged
Open only to actors cast in one of the semester's productions and meeting during the rehearsal of that play, this one-credit tutorial, in three segments of five weeks each, serves as an extension of the rehearsal and is concerned with such matters as the source, style and background of the play. Its aim is to provide fuel for the actors' imagination through relevant discussion, reading, and inquiry into any problem presented by the script and/or the world of the play, or into conceptual issues raised in the course of the production. Permission of the instructor is required. Students may not register until the plays have been cast.

CRN

10177

Distribution

A

Course No.

THTR 330

Title

Confound

Professor

John Conklin

Schedule

Fri 10:30 am - 12:50 pm TBA

Cross-listed: Integrated Arts

4 credits This course takes a play, an opera and a painting from the same historical period and examines the stylistic and historical world and dialectic between these works of art, for example, Tristan and Isolde, Peer Gynt and Desjuener, Sur L'Herbe, or Solome, Major Barbara and Les Desmoiselles D'avignon.

CRN

10462

Distribution

F

Course No.

THTR 350

Title

Advanced Directing Practicum

Professor

Jeffrey Sichel

Schedule

Tu 10:30 am - 12:50 pm Studio West

4 credits Mandated course for Juniors and Seniors who are directing theatrical productions in the current semester. A forum for discussion and sharing of work in progress. This course may be repeated for credit.