Overview
Description
Classical text with emphasis on Shakespeare. Actors explore scansion, phrasing, and vocal expansiveness through scene and monologue work.
Requirements
Prerequisites
THTR 105THTR 251
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): THTR 105; THTR 251.
Units
Lecture2
Laboratory Studio1
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate, by means of several performances, verbal felicity with heightened texts. Specific attention will be given to articulation, projection, rhyme, and communicating meaning through phrasing and timing applied to verse.
- demonstrate, by means of several performances, physical attributes associated with heightened stage realities. Specific attention will be given to posture, poise and posing, stillness, gesture selectivity, curtsies and bows, and the impact of dress on movement.
- demonstrate, by means of in-class exercises, knowledge of effective script analysis including: the contrasting demands of prose and verse, scansion of iambic pentameter, and how punctuation impacts performance.
- construct character from the rhythms and images of formal verse with less emphasis on psychology.
- employ character action and intentions; now via heightened text.