Scene Study

Catalog description

Do you have some acting experience but want to dive deeper? Do you long to play on your feet with a wide variety of material and explore your range? Do you love acting and just want more? This is a course for students with previous acting experience who want to build on and refine their skills. Through in-depth, on-our-feet scene work we will explore how to bring the actor’s craft to bear on a wide variety of material. We will work on three scenes of varying styles: one from the modernist period (Chekhov, Ibsen), one a “style” piece (Wilde, Hansberry, Coward, Wilson), and a contemporary scene. At the same time, through games and improvisations, we will continue to develop our imaginative capabilities and skills at physical transformation and character development. Course texts will include plays, theoretical texts, and performance viewings. This class is intended for students who already have a working vocabulary surrounding the actor's craft (actions, objectives, given circumstances) and experience with script analysis.