TFT 1600 — Theatre Practicum: Performance
This course offers students the opportunity to focus directly on the development and application of performance skills in acting through a hands-on, experiential learning, practicum setting. To enroll, students must audition for and earn a role in an NHCC Department of Theater play production. When a role in a Department of Theater play production is earned, students undertake a creative journey in which they develop their acting through their role for the play production in a structured rehearsal process under the direction and instruction of the course instructor. Emulating professional actors rehearsal processes, this concentrated creative journey in acting enables students to develop a character/role forward from page to stage through completion of the following activities: (1) conducting research that informs participants' understanding about their role/character and also the play's socio-historical context, (2) play analysis activities that inform participants' understanding about the play¿s themes, form, and content, (3) formal rehearsals and other creative activities that develop participants individual acting techniques and abilities, (4) formal rehearsals and other creative activities that develop participants¿ collaboration with the productions director, other actors of the play, and the production team, (5) execution of their role and the play in total for performances before a live audience. This course's meeting times are linked directly to the rehearsal meeting