B.F.A. Acting Studio II

Catalog description

Scene Study THEA 425A B.F.A. Acting Studio II (2) THEA 425A is a laboratory or practicum course requiring active student presentation of work in progress for critiques by the instructor and input from peers. Working in pairs, students will be assigned a five-minute scene from modern American realism. Students must read the play from which the assigned scene is taken, do the necessary historical/analytical homework, develop a character biography and a scene score, and present the result of their work in the initial on-the-feet working sessions for faculty critique and peer input. Taking away responses from each working session, the students are expected to rehearse outside of class to address any issues raised in the previous working session and to ready the scene for the next viewing. In THEA 425A , the instructor will serve, not as a director, but as an acting coach, asking probing questions and using his or her own energy to exhort, guide, and discipline the students, It is expected that faculty intervention will decrease and student self-reliance will increase with each passing studio.