DRAM 306 - The Art of Acting: Comedy

Semester Offered: Fall or Spring
1 unit(s)

Advanced study of comic acting styles including clowning, Commedia Dell’arte, Restoration, High Comedy and Absurdism. The work of Lecoq, Suzuki, Wilde, Coward, Ionesco, Beckett and Callow are explored.

Prerequisite(s): DRAM 203, DRAM 205, one unit in dance or movement analysis, and permission of the instructor.

Two 2-hour periods and one 4-hour laboratory.