INTRODUCTION TO PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
How do theatre artists go from reading a script to creating a fictional world that questions audience expectations about the world outside the theatre? By creating proposals for staging plays, students explore how all the elements of theatrical performance (from sets, costumes, lighting and sound, to acting techniques and public relations) can come together to create meaningful live performances.
Overview:
You read plays, learn terminology and basics for theatrical productions (lighting and sound being the most interesting). The focus is on the mechanics of live performances and what goes on behind the scenes. It is an interesting course if you're into performance and theatre. One thing to note: even though the word 'film' is in this course title... THERE IS NO FILM in the class. That is in 1B03. You do, however, watch a few films of performances and critique them.
Plays:
An example of one of the plays I studied in this course was Ibsen's "
A Doll House", you have an anthology full of scripts from plays that you will study.
Writing
There is writing in this course, and you end up quoting a lot from your Anthology.