Acting IV

Catalog description

Spring Year 2 Acting Discipline. The second semester of your second year of actor training begins with a focus on language. By engaging with the writing of Shaw and Shakespeare, paralleled with contemporary playwrights such as James Baldwin and Ahad Akhtar, you will begin to take full ownership of dense and challenging text; learning how to make it personal, specific and active. We are concerned with meshing craft with the “passion of ideas.” That is - dense text can be brilliantly crafted, beautifully personal and have a heightened sense of truth and meaning that transforms the written word on a page into a vivid and universal experience.