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“Trust what speaking the text reveals to you.” – Valerie Clayman Pye
oUtcomes:
oUtcomes:
My goal is to structure the coarse so that students spend time reading, watching, analyzing, and rehearsing the art and craft of Comedy Acting /Styles. At the end of the semester, students should be able to:
Score, play, and commit to your character's Tactics, Intentions, Objectives, and Obstacles with childlike abandon.
Live within the world of each style (honoring its limitations and attributes) while fully embodying your character.
Play the actions, not the emotion or the joke.
Employ Over/Under-reacting, Opposites, Childishness, Status Shifts, and Self-Ignorance as the character
Analyze and play the language, textual, and rhetorical elements of heightened language texts.
The following assignments have been crafted to support your journey to achieving the above skills.
Texts
Texts
Comedy Acting for Theatre, by Sidney Homan and Brian Rhinehart
Actioning and How to Do It by Nick Moseley
Unearthing Shakespeare by Valerie Clayman Pye
Actions the Actors Thesaurus by Marina Caldarone and Maggie Lloyd-Williams
course description
course description
An extensive study of the scene analysis and playing skills necessary to bring to life various performance styles from Ancient Greek to the modern day. Emphasis is on scene work and the incorporation of voice, movement and acting craft to create fully realized, meaningful performances. Prerequisite: THR 3620.
Course overview
Course overview
The purpose of this course is to continue the study of acting, focusing specifically on the craft, preparation and playing skills necessary to play characters in various styles of Theatre. Techniques for full, rich emotional preparation will be explored. Attention will be placed on the continued development of skills learned in previous acting, movement and voice classes. Emphasis will be placed on effective scene analysis techniques. Playing techniques such as “talking and listening” skills will be developed and strengthened through class exercises. Special attention will be placed on the sensory skills necessary to imaginatively create the environment of each style of Theatre.
Course objectives
Course objectives
Analyze the style of a play and work creatively within that style.
Play moment to moment in the context of any style.
Analyze a scene to find a compelling and active solution to play, employing a working knowledge of objectives, beats, tactics, and obstacles and given circumstances.
Create the imaginative homework necessary for a full, rich characterization in any style of play.
Demonstrate effective, disciplined rehearsal habits, and professional behavior.
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