Advanced Acting: Styles

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Concentrates on advanced scene-work and style, involving the adaptation of movement, speech and mindset to a variety of genres. Units may include Shakespeare, Commedia, Comedy of Manners, Chekhov, as well as post-modernism. Literary and historical research is combined with analysis, as well as physical and vocal exploration. Overall this work attempts to apply the craft of honest acting to styles which may challenge the actor’s notion of “realism.”