THEA 310 Advanced Acting: Explorations in Performance Style and Method
Advanced Acting advances the techniques and skills introduced in Acting 1. Students will continue to explore character development and scene work through an array of texts and styles. Students will also explore acting methods that will help them become more flexible, daring, collaborative, and creative performers. An emphasis will be put on Solo-Performance techniques. Students will actively create a self-sustaining piece of solo theater from conception to creation and finally to the stage. Course participants will also discover and evaluate texts and performance practices of previous solo-theater practitioners. In the process, students will learn how to act with increased freedom and to create characters with genuine psychological complexity, accumulating tools and skills applicable to working both on stage and on screen.