Whether you have some or no experience in theater, this course will open new doors and provide a firm understanding of the actor's craft. We will start with improvisatory exercises to explore basic principles of acting, which will help you expand your expressive capabilities, imagination and spontaneity, and give you greater confidence on stage and in front of people. At the same time, you will use your growing knowledge of the craft to analyze the work of actors on stage and film. Finally, you will work on assigned scenes from dramatic literature, giving you the basic tools of text analysis, the principal tool with which an actor figures out a text. NOTE: This course fulfills the Arts (GA) requirement for students under GenEd and Arts (AR) for students under Core. Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have successfully completed Theater 0925, 1201 or C025.

Temple Rome Course Section: Theater 0825 allows students to explore how culture, experience and geography contribute to creativity, performance poetry, poetic ethnography, and how we, as citizen artists, view the world. As one of the most popular forms of performance art today, taking this course in Rome provides a new opportunity for students to experience community engagement in a vibrant, Old World but new location. Encouraging students to conduct field work, writing poetry about people and locales specific to Italian neighborhoods, cultures and communities, this theater course will teach students the tools to take the poem off-of-the-printed-page, from mere recitation to performance.