THD 350-01 - Critical Approaches Theatre Methods: Period Styles

4 credits (Fall)

Cross-listed as: GLS 350-01. This course is a performance workshop, blending traditional scholarship and practice to examine historical acting styles. The class will consist of games, exercises, and preparation of scenes and monologues, all supported by an understanding of the historical Western context in which the plays were performed, and from which American acting techniques evolved. We will focus on how the players played together, and why, interrogating past methods while re-situating them in a contemporary context. All of this work will take place in a trauma-informed and feminist classroom, where we will also build a caring, creative community. Genres include but are not limited to absurdism, heightened text (both early modern and ancient), and melodrama, and are challenged by additional experiments in Black Acting Methods, as defined by Sharrell D. Luckett and Tia M. Shaffer.

Prerequisite: Any 200-level THD course except THD 200 or THD 201.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: K. Miller