Acting III is designed to provide the student with techniques for and experience in analyzing and presenting a classical text or cutting for the stage. The emphasis of this class will be focused primarily on the process of performance; the student will, therefore, be provided many opportunities to prepare, rehearse, and present disciplined work to the class. The students will use the techniques developed by Constantin Stanislavsky, originally introduced to the student in Acting I and further developed in Acting II, as the basis for presented work written prior to the emergence of the modern age of drama around 1930. The focus of the class, however, will include works written during the Elizabethan and Restoration periods of English literature with an emphasis on the works of William Shakespeare. The course may include literature from other time periods at the discretion of the instructor. Presentations will include solo monologues and duo scene-work as well as larger ensemble acting projects
The student will be responsible for maintaining and completing a portfolio that will include an acting journal, performance critiques, written responses to assigned readings, as well as related research and acting analysis. Each student is required to participate in or attend and respond in writing to both of the fall plays at FHS as well as two other productions --professional or otherwise-- during the course of the semester. |
