- Intermediate Theatre-making

Catalog description

This course builds upon Introduction to Theatre-making (THTR100), which highlighted design collaboration and visual storytelling, by deepening students’ understanding of textual analysis, vocabularies of staging bodies in space, the productive relationship between staging and Text (and other forms of organizing influence), and collaboration between performers and directors. Texts, as a point of origin for staging exercises, will vary, including extant dramatic literature (plays), narrative material for adaptation to the stage, poetry, folklore, and other elements (including students’ own experiences), by which students will construct interpretive goals and make staging choices. Working together alternately as performers and directors, students will create/make unique Performance Texts, deriving some of their direction from the original Text and some through personal resonances and intentions which emerge as interpretation. Students will also develop new proficiencies with vocabularies of staging and they will practice collaboratively through in-class exercises and out-of-class group work on larger projects, which culminate in presentations, peer feedback ,and constructive critique through discussion. Written work for the course includes text analyses, concept descriptions, and reflections on the collaborative process. Course work also includes quizzes on theoretical and practical reading assignments.