Theater and Performance

Catalog description

In Spanish Theatre and Performance, the students will read and analyze a variety of Spanish and Latin American plays from a literary perspective as well as from the perspective of a director, designer, and actor. We will use that analysis to create and perform monologues and scenes in Spanish. The students will learn acting, directing, and design skills and put those creative skills at service to further develop their ability to communicate effectively in the target language. This is a course for oral communication through the use of acting. In this course, we will use acting techniques in order to improve our fluency in oral expression. There will be some grammar instruction that will flow through the scripts we encounter. This course will facilitate your ability to express yourself both professionally and personally. The class is conducted in Spanish. The students will use Creative Thinking in order to support the Key Literacy of developing a world language, particularly Spanish. This course will examine plays from a variety of different countries. Play will be chosen from both Latin America and Spain, thereby introducing students to a variety of international cultures. We will be looking at these plays from a historical and social perspective, thereby examing the cultural values, traditions, beliefs, and customs of several countries and cultures. We will look at plays ranging from the turn of the twentieth century through today and see how they and their contexts change through time. We will see how, for example, the plays of Lorca (Spain) might influence playwrights from other Spanish-speaking countries. (The second performance of "Bodas de sangre" was in Buenos Aires Argentina.)