Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• This is the thrird quarter in the series for the advanced student actors.
• This class will enable the advanced student actor to understand, interpret and analyze a script, scene and role in order to take that character from the printed page to the theatrical stage.
• Theywill work on their ability to intellectually confront a script with the tools of research, analysis and conceptual thinking.
• Work on thier knowledge of your character’s objective as the center of the acting process.
• Work on their capacity to imagine within the given circumstances of the script as well as beyond them. They will strive to always “live truthfully in imaginary circumstances.”
• Work on the physicality needed to render and project a character physically varied from their own. They will also work on the physicality needed to keep healthy in an atmosphere of intense physical, mental and emotional work.
• Learn to honor both interpretation as well as creation.
• Focus on “externals” this quarter- the use of dialect, props, costumes and “style” choices that will help them investigate and inhabit their character.