printer friendly pageDRAMA 10AX: Acting Intensive
Goal is to develop physical and language creativity through an exploration of contemporary and 19th-century play texts. Language and the process of bringing dramatic literature to life on stage. Readings include contemporary playwrights as well as writers at the turn of the 19th century such as Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, and August Strindberg.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Amarotico, K. (PI)
DRAMA 11AX: Set Design
How ideas in fine art, architecture, and installation inform the practice of theatre set design. Traditional techniques of stage scenery design, basic drafting and model making guide the process of designing a set for an opera or play in this hands-on workshop.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Flatmo, E. (PI)
DRAMA 11N: Dramatic Tensions: Theater and the Marketplace
Preference to freshmen. Tension between artistic and commercial forces in modern theater; the conflicted state of the art form. Sources include major and emerging contemporary figures in commercial, fringe, and nonprofit theater in the U.S. and UK. Visits with writers, directors, and dramaturges.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Freed, A. (PI)
DRAMA 11SC: Learning Theater: From Audience to Critic at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
13 days and ten plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. The details of the plays, their interpretation, production, and acting, and their value as entertainment and challenge.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Paulson, L. (PI)
;
Rayner, A. (PI)
DRAMA 12AX: Body (Landscape) That Remembers and Forgets: Tracing the Body at Risk
Material and designs of artists include painters, sculptors, fashion photographers, and music video directors. Field trips to museums and theater productions.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Hernandez, G. (PI)
DRAMA 12N: Antigone: From Ancient Democracy to Contemporary Dissent (CLASSGEN 6N)
Preference to freshmen. Tensions inherent in the democracy of ancient Athens; how the character of Antigone emerges in later drama, film, and political thought as a figure of resistance against illegitimate authority; and her relevance to contemporary struggles for women's and workers' rights and national liberation. Readings and screenings include versions of
Antigone by Sophocles, Anouilh, Brecht, Fugard/Kani/Ntshona, Paulin, Glowacki, Gurney, and von Trotta.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-ER
Instructors:
Rehm, R. (PI)
DRAMA 15N: Screening the Stage
Preference to freshmen. Stage plays that have been adapted for film and the differences in narrative, scene, character, the effects of star actors, audiences, and expectations in each medium. Play texts include:
Look Back in Anger, A Streetcar Names Desire, A Raisin in the Sun, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Mel Gibson's 1990
Hamlet, Closer, and
Doubt.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Rayner, A. (PI)
DRAMA 17N: Salt of the Earth: The Docudrama in America (CHICANST 160N, CSRE 160N)
Preference to freshmen. Docudrama as a form of dramatic writing which provides a social critique of current or historical events through creative documentation and dramatization. Sources include Chicana/o and Latina/o texts, Brecht, Teatro Campesino, and Culture Clash. Students produce a short docudrama.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
Instructors:
Moraga, C. (PI)
;
Witherspoon, N. (PI)
DRAMA 20: Acting for Non-Majors (DRAMA 124D)
Creative play and ensemble work. Skills including group improvisation to partner work. Freeing the natural voice and physical relaxation. Emphasis is on imaginative and creative impulses. Movement improvisation, listening exercises, and theater games. How to take risks that are the essence of free and powerful performance.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, way_ce
Instructors:
Amarotico, K. (PI)
DRAMA 22: Scene Work
For actors who complete substantial scene work with graduate directors in the graduate workshop.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
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