THEATER
CRN |
10167 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
THTR 102 LH1 | ||
Title |
Introduction to Acting |
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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 |
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Professor |
Lynn Hawley | ||
Schedule |
Tu Th 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Drama Studio |
CRN |
10168 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
THTR 102 NT | ||
Title |
Introduction to Acting (American Method) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Professor |
TBA | ||
Schedule |
TBA |
CRN |
10163 |
Distribution |
F |
Course No. |
THTR 314 | ||
Title |
Survey of Drama: Comedy |
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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 |
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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 |
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Professor |
Robert Rockman | ||
Schedule |
To be arranged |
CRN |
10177 |
Distribution |
A |
Course No. |
THTR 330 | ||
Title |
Confound |
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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 |
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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.