CRN	13630	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 101 A
Title	Introduction to Acting
Professor	Jeffrey Sichel
Schedule	Wed Fr 10:00 am - 11:30 am

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	13631	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 101 B
Title	Introduction to Acting: American Method
Professor	Naomi Thornton
Schedule	Th 3:20 pm -5:20 pm

Cross-listed: American Studies

CRN	13649	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 122
Title	Movement for Actors
Professor	TBA
Schedule	TBA

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

CRN	13640	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 131 A
Title	Voice
Professor	Elizabeth Smith
Schedule	Tu Fr 11:50 am - 12:50 pm

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	13641	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 131 B
Title	Voice
Professor	Elizabeth Smith
Schedule	Tu Fr 1:30 pm -2:30 pm

See description above.

CRN	13647	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 141
Title	Alexander Technique
Professor	Judith Youett
Schedule	Th Fr 9:30 am - 11:00 am

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 creative process. Note: there are two ninety-minute sections, to be assigned at registration.

CRN	13648	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 142
Title	Alexander Technique II
Professor	Judith Youett
Schedule	Th Fr 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

1 credit A continuation of the study of body investigation, alignment and relaxation, as begun in Alexander Technique I. Note: there are two ninety-minute sections, to be assigned at registration.

CRN	13659	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 191
Title	Theatre Practicum
Professor	Jeffrey Sichel
Schedule	Tu 10:00 am - 11:30 am

2 credits This course offers an opportunity for theater majors to receive formal faculty supervision and credit for work that is vital to the study of theater arts and required towards major studies. Theater majors and prospective theater majors are required to perform work outside of the classroom, regular course-work, and in addition to normal homework activities in order to broaden their understanding and appreciation of all areas of theatrical activity. By designing for theater productions and working on crews (costume, scenery, lighting, sound, etc.), students will interact with professional directors, designers, stage managers and crews, working with them in the intense crucible of theatrical activity that surrounds all such artistic production endeavors, and they will receive invaluable hands-on training in the technical aspects of making theater. This practical applied work is not only highly desired, but also required for prospective majors to moderate into the theater department. Professional-student relationships will be determined and administered by the course professor. The course will meet weekly to discuss projects, planning, and problem-solving with the course professor. Not for work associated with moderation or senior projects. Repeatable for credit by special arrangement with adviser and instructor.

CRN	13650	Distribution	B/C
Course No.	THTR 206
Title	History of Theater II
Professor	Jean Wagner
Schedule	Wed Fr 1:30 pm -3:00 pm

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	13636	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 207 A
Title	Playwrighting I
Professor	Chiori Miyagawa
Schedule	Tu 1:30 pm -3:50 pm

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	13637	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 207 B
Title	Playwrighting I
Professor	Dominic Taylor
Schedule	Wed 3:00 pm -5:30 pm

See description above.

CRN	13638	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 208
Title	Playwrighting II
Professor	Chiori Miyagawa
Schedule	Tu 4:10 pm -6:30 pm

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.

CRN	13632	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 209 A
Title	Scene Study
Professor	Lynn Hawley
Schedule	Tu Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am

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.

CRN	13633	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 209 B
Title	Scene Study
Professor	Lynn Hawley
Schedule	Tu Th 11:30 am - 12:50 pm

See description above.

CRN	13645	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 215
Title	Physical Comedy
Professor	Orlando Pabotoy
Schedule	Mon 1:30 pm -4:30 pm

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

CRN	13643	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 227
Title	Neutral Masks
Professor	Shelley Wyant
Schedule	Wed 10:30 am -1:30 pm

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.

CRN	13644	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 228
Title	Character Mask
Professor	Shelley Wyant
Schedule	Tu 2:30 pm -5:30 pm

2 credits Students will work with masks that have very stylized and recognizable expressions, leading the actor to a liberation behind the mask, developing character in the body and the story of the person in the mask.

CRN	13642	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 231
Title	Voice and Verse I
Professor	Elizabeth Smith
Schedule	Fr 2:45 pm -4:15 pm

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.

CRN	13639	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 304
Title	Directing Seminar II
Professor	JoAnne Akalaitis
Schedule	Wed 1:30 pm -4:30 pm

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	13634	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 307 A
Title	Advanced Scene Study
Professor	Erin Mee
Schedule	Th 1:30 pm -4:30 pm

3 credits This course will use scene work and movement-based exercises to focus on the actor's rehearsal process, to harness the actor's imagination, and to strengthen the actor's craft. Specific emphasis on: text analysis, developing a character, physicalizing emotion, give and take between actors, commitment to action, retaining the score and renewing the contact, and most importantly, risk-taking. Actors will be required to read some of the seminal practical and theoretical texts on acting by Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Grotowski, Bogart, and Panikkar, and to write a short paper on acting theory.

CRN	13635	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 307 B
Title	Advanced Scene Study: American Method
Professor	Naomi Thornton
Schedule	Th 1:00 pm -3:00 pm

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.

CRN	13651	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 310 A
Title	Survey of Drama: Jacobean
Professor	Jesse Berger
Schedule	Mon 10:00 am -1:00 pm

4 credits The Jacobean dramatists wrote an amazing number of strikingly innovative and challenging plays. While they have been historically overshadowed by Shakespeare's work, the plays they wrote are unique reflections of a time of great upheaval in England, and provide often powerful parallels to our own society. The following plays will be studied as texts for contemporary performance: Malcontent, Volpone, Revenger's Tragedy, Timon of Athens, Duchess of Malfi, Women Beware Women, Changeling, Two Noble Kinsmen, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, and others. The plays will be considered in their relationships to each other, the theaters they were written for, the social fabric of their time, and their influence on today's theater. We will examine differences between the Elizabethan and Jacobean courts, their theaters, and the emerging crisis of confidence in early seventeenth-century English society that led to the closing of the English theaters, and civil war. The philosophical and literary underpinnings of the Jacobean dramatists will be studied in the context of the development of verse drama in England. Selections from the writings of Montaigne, Donne, Bacon, Seneca, Kyd and Marlowe will be included. Modern productions of Jacobean plays will be researched and analyzed. When possible, trips to see current productions of Jacobean plays in performance will be arranged. Students will write critical essays, participate in analytical discussions, and create in-class projects.

CRN	13652	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 310 B
Title	Survey of Drama: African American Theater 1858-present
Professor	Dominic Taylor
Schedule	Th 10:00 am -1:00 pm PRE 101

Cross-listed: AADS

CRN	13653	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 310 C
Title	Survey of Drama: Grotesque in Theater
Professor	Dmitry Troyanovsky
Schedule	Mon 1:30 pm -4:30 pm

4 credits For centuries, artists have struggled to express life's bewildering and contradictory forces, to find a balance between laughter and horror, and to walk the precarious balance of madness and rationality. Twentieth century brought an even more overwhelming need to reexamine rigid separations between various styles and genres, as existence itself seemed like a giant contradiction. We will discuss the works of playwrights such as Gogol, Pirandello, Durrenmatt, Jarry, Capek, Lorca, Kharms, Pinter, Albee, Joe Ornton, and Durang. Meyerhold's Theater of the Grotesque, Grand Guignol, and Pirandello's theater of masks will be studied as well. Another aspect of the course will be a more practical investigation of style. How to find an adequate acting vocabulary that reaches beyond simple realism? What possible visual solutions freely combine tears and laughter, reality and fantasy?

CRN	13646	Distribution	F
Course No.	THTR 318
Title	Visual Imagination for the Modern Stage
Professor	Gordana Svilar
Schedule	Mon 10:00 am -1:00 pm

4 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.