THTR1031 — Acting Methods and Performance
THTR 1031 - Acting Methods and Performance THTR 1031 - Acting Methods and Performance Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 0 Internship hours per week 0 Course Description: The course develops the basics of acting through study, practice, and application. In training and developing the actor’s voice and body, the course explores methods to enter a creative state, create the world of a play, create characters and scenes of a play. Course activities include vocal and physical warmups, reading plays, and applying acting vocabulary and concepts. Additional activities include writing performance plans, working with physical and imaginative exercises, analyzing play texts, and attending and evaluating the acting in live theatre productions. The course consists of a combination of lecture/discussion, improvisation, acting exercises, presentation of audition pieces (monologues), rehearsal, presentation and critique of small group works alongside first and second semester classmates. MnTC Goals Goal 6 Improvisation to develop characters Laban movement Principles of Warming up the Voice and Body Stanislavsky Working with the senses Given circumstances (Who, What, Where, When?) Units and