THAR0020 - Fundamentals of Acting: First-Year Seminar

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Fundamentals of Acting: First-Year Seminar
Term
2025A
Subject area
THAR
Section number only
301
Section ID
THAR0020301
Course number integer
20
Meeting times
W 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Brooke K. O'Harra
Description
Rooted in the system devised by Constantine Stanislavsky, but incorporating a wide variety of approaches, including improvisation, this course takes students step by step through the practical work an actor must do to live and behave truthfully on-stage. Beginning with relaxation and physical exercise, interactive games, and ensemble building, students then learn and put into practice basic acting techniques, including sensory work, the principles of action, objectives, given circumstances, etc. The semester culminates in the performance of a scene or scenes, most often from a play from the Realist tradition. This course strongly stresses a commitment to actor work and responsibility to one's fellow actors. Practical work is supplemented by readings from Stanislavsky and a variety of other acting theorists that may include Uta Hagen, Robert Cohen, Stella Adler, among others. Students are required to submit short essays over the course of the semester in response to the readings and in preparation for their final scene project.
This First-Year Seminar covers the same material as THAR0120 Introduction to Acting, and a student may not receive credit for both courses.
Course number only
0020
Fulfills
Humanties & Social Science Sector
Use local description
No