Theatre Arts

Workshop Theatre I is an introductory theatre class that will help students learn foundational skills in voice and movement, character development, script analysis,  and stagecraft. We will study an array of techniques and methods of acting, preparing for a role or an audition, and strengthening stage presence, through a focus on voice, movement, storytelling, and offering meaningful, critical feedback in response to production work. Students will apply these methods to the development of scene work in an authentic production setting. Students will develop a framework for critically analyzing production quality in live theatre, film, and media, while refining their own confidence and collaborative and communicative skills.

Advanced Actors’ Studio will afford serious students of the performing arts an opportunity to mount a fully processed, ensemble-based production, and will challenge students to bridge social outreach and service learning with their own devised work. Studio students will apply the methods practiced in Workshop Theatre I and II to the creation of a new work, inspired by the group’s response to a real-world, social concern. Students will refine their understanding of the role and impact of the arts in a community by combining project-based, social outreach endeavors and research with a student-generated performance that serves to illuminate the social matter of their choice. Students will finalize their professional acting portfolio in preparation for academic and professional pursuits beyond the secondary level.

The course is designed to help students bring critical thinking skills into their experience as theatergoers. Students will be introduced to the theatre arts - acting, directing, and design. Students will survey the history of Western theatre, focusing on the art as a reflection of society’s changing social and cultural values. Plays representing several genres and historical periods will be read and discussed. Writing assignments include critical reviews of plays attended. 

This course is available as part of the College Credit Plus program. Students will earn three semester hours of credit from Columbus State Community College.