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2023-2024 WWCC College Catalog 
    
2023-2024 WWCC College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

DRMA 251 - Intermediate Acting I


Credits: 3
LEC hours per week: 2
LAB hours per week: 2
Advanced acting techniques. Formerly: THEA 251.
Prerequisite(s): DRMA 153  
Course Outcomes:
  • Demonstrate an ability to exhibit a wide range of characterizations/emotions.
  • Display an ability to play against “type”.
  • Exhibit diminishing self-consciousness and increasing self-confidence in live performance tasks.
  • Define and apply standard terminology of the acting profession.
  • Analyze and interpret a wider variety of textual materials and theatrical genres for performance.
  • Demonstrate an increasing mastery of effective audition techniques.
  • Demonstrate an ability to control personal “tendencies/habits” while employing proper techniques of vocal and physical expression necessary for live performance.
  • Evidence respect for the differing talents and abilities of other artists/performers.
Course Topics:
  1. Monologue and scene work with an emphasis on varying genres of theatrical performance.
  2. Classical
  3. Renaissance
  4. Romantic
  5. Avant-Garde
  6. How to prepare for an audition including singing and movement techniques
  7. Issues relating to the professional theatrical environment
Course Attribute(s): Humanities/Perf Arts