Courses

This course focuses on the actor's unique role in illuminating a character's psychological and physical life. It aims to reduce self-editing and unleash the actor's creative impulse. Students develop authenticity of character through specificity of choices and steadfast fidelity to the writer's given circumstances.

Study of advanced problems in movement, perception of characters, and acting methods including Stanislavski, Meisner, and Adler.

Acting in performances directed by faculty or by students under faculty supervision. May be repeated for credit if different work is involved.

This is a studio course emphasizing the theories and methods of Stanislavsky in order to create characters in realistic drama. Prerequisites: TH 1365 and [TH 1340 or TH 1345] both with grades of "C" or better.

This course explores Shakespeare's plays and poetry from a performance perspective. Students will utilize text analysis, including scansion, monologue work, and scene study in order to truthfully perform Shakespeare's work.

This class explores a selected sample of theatre performance styles. The global history of performance includes many different uses of language, movement, gesture, relationship-to-audience, and storytelling intention. Instructors lead students through a curated sample of performance literature that could include Greek, Asian, Jacobean, Shakespearean, Moliere, Comedy of Manners, African, Latinx, and Brecht.

Practical study in acting styles of the most influential dramatic periods to include Greek, Medieval, Commedia Dell'Arte, Shakespeare, Neo-Classic, Restoration, Naturalism, Epic, and Non-Realistic.

This is the first of a two-course sequence in which student will focus on the development of the body voice as the performing instruments in acting. Emphasis is placed on pantomime, improvisation, acting exercises, and building characterizations in acting scenes. Students will participate in a theatre production.

Enterprise State Community College course in Acting Techniques I. Refer to the ESCC catalog at escc.smartcatalogiq.com for the full course description, prerequisites, and learning outcomes.

This is the first of a two-course sequence in which the student will focus on the development of the body and voice as the performer’s instruments in acting. Emphasis is placed on improvisation, acting exercises, and characterizations in scenes and/or monologues.