THE - Theatre

Designed for students participating in, acting or backstage work, theatre productions of the University. Coursework arrangements made individually with theatre director.

Provides skill assessment, practice, and work toward a public performance. Students will work with a professional to create a program, design costumes and sets, promote, and film their performance.

Examines theory and practice of technical phases of play production including stagecraft, lighting, costuming, makeup, design and theatre management. Understand coordination and management of all phases of production. Includes practical work on productions.

Students examine the foundational history and practice of theatre. Major theatrical periods and dramatic literature are introduced through readings and viewing of live or recorded theatrically based productions. Students are also introduced to the practical professions in theatre, including directors, actors, and designers.

For students without a chemistry background. Fundamental ideas of matter and energy, atomic structure and bonding, reactions and equations, electrochemistry acids, bases and salts are discussed.Using Aristotle's Principles, students will learn how to arrive at the ultimate thought of a play. Viewing videos of plays performed in front of live audiences, students will learn to critique and appreciate performances of great actors and plays, ranging from Aeschulus to Pinter. Other topics include determination of styles, themes, differences, and commonalities of thought within the bodies of work and the application of personal, societal, historical, and political ramifications of the playwrights and their plays.

Students will be exposed to various music styles. Topics include ways to project, flavor, and sell songs for performances.

Covers basic techniques for comprehension of theory and practice of acting. Explores both inner and outer techniques to create a role. Follows working steps from analysis of script to the creation in performance of a fully realized characterization. Designed as an introduction for beginning students and basis for advanced study.

Provides skill assessment, practice, and work toward a public performance. Students will work with a professional to create a program, design costumes and sets, promote, and film their performance. Includes substantial independent group work to prepare and complete two public performances.

Students will learn fundamental techniques used in creating successful makeup application for the stage. Techniques will include two and three dimensional processes.

Explores definitions and theories of environment and performance as well as the intersection, influence, interpretation, and creation of environmnets and performances through one another as seen from different historical periods. Theoretical frameworks are used to examine several performance experiences (theatrical, musical, artistic, virtual, and ritual). Crosslisted with LAS 31003 IDS: Environment and Performance.

Designed for students participating in acting or backstage work, theater productions of the University. Coursework arrangements made individually with theatre director.

Study of origins and development of theatre from the Greeks to the 17th century. Examines and analyzes major playwrights and plays with emphasis on European and Eastern works. Includes overview of the history of theatre criticism.

Focuses on development of theatre from the late 17th century and Realism through 20th century to contemporary movements. Examines and analyzes major playwrights and plays of Europe and America.

Topics include research of historically accurate clothing, elements of design, rendering of costume designs, following the concepts and style of a production to design appropriate costumes, developing creativity and imagination to enhance the artistic element, next step in the progression of costumes for stage, and design of many costumes and productions. Final is a design product.

Using Aristotle's Principles, students will learn how to arrive at the ultimate thought of a play. Viewing videos of plays performed in front of live audiences, students will learn to critique and appreciate performances of great actors and plays, ranging from Aeschulus to Pinter. Other topics include determination of styles, themes, differences, and commonalities of thought within the bodies of work and the application of personal, societal, historical, and political ramifications of the playwrights and their plays. Students will focus on written analysis, including research of the historical context of each play viewed in the course. Prerequisite: THE 14723 or consent of the instructor.

Students learn to interpret original scripts for playwrights wanting to workshop their projects. Course culminates with a workshop reading for the public.

Designed around special theories, practices or interests of an individual or group of students.

Study of mechanisms of vocal production and practice with vocal performance.  Study and practice of International Phonetic Alphabet and integration into creating and recognition of dialects.  Study and practice in vocal delivery with attention to articulation, projection, voice quality, rate and pitch.

Students learn fundamentals of design for theatrical crafts including scenic design, costume design, lighting design, and property design. Fundamentals of design theory, drafting, and application are also covered. Prerequisite: THE 14123 Stagecraft.

In this course students practice performance techniques of significant period styles and composers of musical theatre.  Songs and practice techniques from the Pre-, Post-, and Golden Age musical theatre periods will be analyzed.  Also covered are solo practice techniques, scene preparation, and performance.

Students examine major events, shifts, and dvelopments in and surrounding the history of the American Musical Theatre.

Advanced acting course continuing development of skills acquired from Acting I. Emphasis on acting styles required for successful performance of historical period plays and genres and the techniques to interpret, analyze and portray roles from historic literature. Prerequisite: THE 20023 Acting I or consent of instructor.

Focuses on theory and practice of directing:composition, picturization, movement, rhythm and pantomimic dramatization. Examines directing of the last 100 years, from proscenium to central experimental staging. Requires final project. Prerequisites: THE 14123 Stagecraft, THE 14623 Introduction to Theatre, THE 20023 Acting I.

Practical experience in major area of study. Arranged individually and taken after completion of major coursework.

Students will learn the tools necessary to unpack and prepare a script for production. Focuses on encouraging an engagement with the text through multiple analytical frameworks, including both formalist and non-formalist approaches.

Presents senior theatre performance majors with an opportunity to demonstrate their maturity of performance skills and techniques. Prerequisites:Senior status and a declared and approved major in theatre.