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A studio/performance-oriented course. Provides training, analysis and experience in the stage performance of the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Emphases are on monologue and scene study.

An advanced studio performance-oriented course that focuses on exercises and presentation reflecting historical periods and styles of performance. Emphases include research of the period, manners and conventions, language and physicality.

Intended to provide students an opportunity to study the diversity of literature written for the stage, as well as the historical, socio-political and cultural aspects that contributed to the creation of these works.

Studies the basic tasks of the director: play selection, analysis, casting, rehearsing and mounting the production. Each student is responsible for directing the performance of a one-act play or equivalent dramatic scene.

Allows graduating theatre majors to showcase their skills in the creation of a solo presentation of monologues and scenes to demonstrate their development as performers and theatre artists. All majors will be required to enroll in this course for the completion of their program of study.