Advanced Acting Topics (375-0-28)

Topic

Shakespeare Tools: From On The Page, To On Your Fe

Instructors

Gregory D Linington

Meeting Info

Wirtz Center STRUB: Fri 12:00PM - 2:50PM

Overview of class

Combining actors and directors, this class will take you through the process of working on a scene. A how-to on preparation before you enter the rehearsal room, scansion, dramaturgy, tablework, scene study, and getting everything up on its feet. Actors will work with directors on developing a common language, best practices and collaboration. Get a leg up on your classical work, and discover its applicability to every aspect of your work in the theater. You will be given invaluable tools, not rules, to research and study Shakespeare's language. This course is open to graduate and undergraduate students. Registered students may participate in the class as both directors and actors (i.e. you may be acting in scenes even if you are a director).

Taught by Gregory Linington, a classical and contemporary actor, coach and dramaturg who spent 13 seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and more recently at Shakespeare Theatre DC and Chicago Shakespeare as well as taught Shakespeare for over 30 years.

Registration Requirements

Acting sequence seniors only (pre-req: Theatre 373-3). Students cannot enroll in more than one section of THEATRE 375-0 during preregistration and the first week of regular registration. Students may register for an additional section of 375 once the restriction is removed.

Class Materials (Required)

Access to Shakespeare plays. No cost

Class Attributes

SoC Humanities and Fine Arts Distro

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: Students must have completed THEATRE 373-3 to enroll.