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Advanced Acting Topics (375-0-22)

Topic

Advanced Shakespeare

Instructors

Henry Dominic Godinez
847.491.3157
70 Arts Circle Drive room 5-169

Meeting Info

Wirtz 201 Performnce Black Box: Mon, Wed 3:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

This course is focused on performing the plays of William Shakespeare and Spanish Golden Age plays, including contemporary adaptations. It exposes the student actor to a variety of Shakespeare's plays, as well as those of Lope de Vega, Calderon, and Tersio de Molina. We will also particularly engage with contemporary adaptations of Calderon's Life is a Dream by Nilo Cruz and José Rivera (Sueño), through in-depth analysis, rehearsal/performance of monologues, and two-character and ensemble scene work. Students will compare and contrast these high renaissance contemporaries in order to make their own well-informed, personal choices for performance of heightened language texts. The class is designed to enable the student actor to fully inhabit Shakespearean and Spanish Golden Age characters in a personal and believable way, embodying language with clarity, imagination and passion.