THD 320 - Solo Performance

4 credits (Fall or Spring)

This class introduces the art of solo performance, culminating with each student scripting, designing, and performing their own original ten-minute production for the campus community. Student projects have ranged in focus from the AIDS quilt, police brutality, and ADD to female stand-up comedians, the Dirty War, and the US penal system. By creating and performing their own texts, students learn to critically engage their own authorial voice and the power dynamics intrinsic in all forms of representation. May be repeated one time for credit for a new unique solo performance.

Prerequisite: Any 200 or 300-level Theatre, Studio Art, Art History, Humanities or Music course, with the exception of THD 200, THD 250, MUS 220, MUS 221, or MUS 320.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Quintero