DRAM 392 - Intensive Topics

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

This intensive course is designed to accommodate small groups of students (roughly 6-8), working in a mentored relationship with a faculty member on a topic related to an aspect of performance or performance theory. Not to be confused with the senior projects or with preparation for a performance, this course provides students the opportunity for study in a specific area in drama. Topics might include, but are not limited to, professional considerations in acting, such as the audition process and finding an agent, a deep dive into the professional actor’s creative process; stage management, archival research, directing styles or the history of directing, the historic costume collection, etc.

Students are introduced to promptbooks or more broadly annotated play scripts–what they are, how to read them, how they were used in the theatre. Using the Shakespeare Globe Archive and the Shakespeare in Performance database, students explore a Shakespeare play of their choice to uncover how scripts were cut for performance and what staging choices were made for a specific production. Students encounter scripts from the 1600s through the 21st century. Denise Walen.

Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and permission of the department.

One 3-hour period.

Course Format: INT