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Acting

Units

Unit Essential Questions Content Skills and Processes Assessment Resources Multicultural Dimension
Intro to Theater

•How do I develop aesthetic sensitivity and understanding of the Theatre?
•How do I understand elements of drama?
•How do I develop the comfort necessary to take artistic and personal risks in dramatic work?

*Use of subtext, objective,truth of character
*Strategies for solo scene performance
*Monologue writing
*Shakspeare scene project
Play writing vocabulary and nomenclature
Creating a audition project

*Coordinate the actor’s instrument (body, voice, inner life) for effective performance
*Collaborate off-stage; connect on-stage
*Show ownership of personal creative power: what do I have to say?
*Write an original performance piece
*Break large projects down into small pieces
*Learn from failures, celebrate victories
*Write & perform an original monologue

*Composition and performance of original monologue.
*Performance Shakespeare scene project
*Active class participation
*Public performance of audition pieces

Books
Articles
Internet
Video/ DVD

*Describe and compare universal characters and situations in dramas.
*Discuss how theatre can reveal universal concepts and truths.
*Discuss how theatrical practices and specific theatrical artifacts reflect a culture, and how their own culture is reflected in their own theatrical work.
*Read a wide selection of culturally significant theatrical literature from various cultures.

*Analyze the social and aesthetic impact of under represented theatre and film artists.

Examine the relationships among cultural values, freedom of expression, ethics, and artistic choices in various cultures and historical periods.
Actor's Studio

How can I build skills as an actor?
How do I understand acting as craft or technique?
What is the actors relationship to text?

Use textual analaysis as foundation for character
Focus on beat, super objective and through arc of the character
Solo scene performances from found text of modern playwrights
Introduction to Uta Hagen & Jeremy Wheeland

Block, memorize and perform a monologue scenes (3per semester) utilizing an appropriate set, costumes, and props.
Attend specific Fine Arts performances.
Reflective journal

Instructor,peer, and self evaluation of scene study projects
Reflective journal

Books on Acting
Articles
Video / DVD
Internet

Describe and compare universal characters and situations in dramas.
Discuss how theatre can reveal universal concepts and truths.
Discuss how theatrical practices and specific theatrical artifacts reflect a culture, and how their own culture is reflected in their own theatrical work.
Read a wide selection of culturally significant theatrical literature from various cultures.

Analyze the social and aesthetic impact of under represented theatre artists.

Examine the relationships among cultural values, freedom of expression, ethics, and artistic choices in various cultures and historical periods.