Theatre

Theatre Courses

TH-105   Introduction to Theatre (Either Semester; Yearly; 4.00 Credits; CW,F,H) An introduction to the theatre experience. Areas of inquiry include: role of the audience; purpose of the theatrical event; dramatic literature and structure; performers; the role of the playwright, actor, producer, director and designers; includes hands-on experience.

TH-180   Theatre Arts Practicum (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 1.00-3.00 Credits; F,H) Credit option for students participating in theatrical productions. Students may receive credit for acting, technical, or administrative positions for a given production. Credit hours are dependent upon the role or position. Credit limits will be determined by the professor. Available by permission only.

TH-181   Theatre Arts Practicum (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 1.00-3.00 Credits; F,H) See TH180.

TH-199   Special Topics (Variable; Variable; 1.00-4.00 Credits; F,H) Allows the department to offer special topics not normally offered. Departments may offer more than one special topic. Prerequisites vary by title.

TH-205   Stagecraft (Fall; Yearly; 4.00 Credits; F) An examination of the principles and procedures of working in the physical environment of the theatre. Focuses on scenery construction and technology, lighting procedures and technology and principles of organization and management used in technical theatre. Prerequisite: TH105.

TH-210   Living Theatre History (Variable; Variable; 3.00 Credits; H,CW) In this course, we investigate the history of theatre in the world until the late 19th Century. A fundamental premise is that theatrical style is intimately connected with the life of the culture out of which it grew. For each " major " historical theatrical era, we look at how the conventions of playwriting, performance, staging, and design reflect the life of that culture.

TH-221   Acting (Fall; Yearly; 3.00 Credits; CS,F,H) A study of the discipline of acting, including development of concentration methods, creative energy, fine tuning of the vocal and physical instrument and character analysis.

TH-260   Movement and Improvisation (Either Semester; Yearly; 3.00 Credits; F,CS) In this course we will explore different techniques of opening worlds of movement and sound. Much of the work will come from improvisations. Sometimes we will develop improvisations further in order to see their capacity to exist over time. We will watch them settle into specificity, give access to specific worlds, take on various lives aligned with texts, and perhaps become the seeds for created theatre pieces. It may be helpful to think of this course as an experimental laboratory, such as you might think of a science lab in an undergraduate course. In such a lab, you are working to acquire analytical skills, understanding how to manipulate data, etc. We will be working with the raw material of this course-bodily impulse, breath, voice, rhythm, spontaneity, space-to acquire skills for vocal and physical improvisation and movement.

TH-270   Performance Lab (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 2.00 Credits; F,CS) This is the advanced performance skills class for students enrolled in the Performance POE. taught by Professor Belser in collaboration with professional artists in The Gravity Project, the course includes sections on: voice/speech/dialect work; several modes of movement training; styles of acting; advanced scene study; generating one's own performance piece; directing; and auditioning.

TH-271   Performance Lab (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 2.00 Credits; F,CS) This is the advanced performance skills class for students enrolled in the Performance POE. taught by Professor Belser in collaboration with professional artists in The Gravity Project, the course includes sections on: voice/speech/dialect work; several modes of movement training; styles of acting; advanced scene study; generating one's own performance piece; directing; and auditioning.

TH-275   Arts Production Lab (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 2.00 Credits; F) The Arts Production Lab is for students enrolled in the Arts Production POE. The course explores advanced skills, concepts and practices of managing performing arts organizations. Topics include: graphic design and publications, digital video production for web and film applications, curating live arts events, installing multi-media works.

TH-276   Arts Production Lab (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 2.00 Credits; F) The Arts Production Lab is for students enrolled in the Arts Production POE. The course explores advanced skills, concepts and practices of managing performing arts organizations. Topics include: graphic design and publications, digital video production for web and film applications, curating live arts events, installing multi-media works.

TH-280   Theatre Arts Practicum (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 1.00-3.00 Credits; F,H) (See TH 180).

TH-281   Theatre Arts Practicum (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 1.00-3.00 Credits; F,H) See TH180.

TH-299   Special Topics (Variable; Variable; 1.00-4.00 Credits; F,H) Allows the department to offer special topics not normally offered. Departments may offer more than one special topic. Prerequisites vary by title.

TH-310   20th Century Innovations (Variable; Variable; 3.00 Credits; H,CW) Investigations of artists, theories, practices, and productions that were significant innovations in the 20th Century World Theatre. The course is a discussion/lecture course inviting students into a deeper experience of how and why the art of theatre took such a diverse and wild ride in the last century.

TH-355   Studies in Drama (Either Semester; Yearly; 3.00 Credits; CW,F,H) These courses examine cultural currents, theatrical elements and particular voices of playwrights from various areas and styles of dramatic literature. The courses subtitle will change as we study different categories of plays. Examples include: Modern America Drama, Contemporary Women Playwrights, World Drama, and Avant-Garde Drama.

TH-361   Modern Drama (Variable; Variable; 3.00 Credits; F,H,CW) Prerequisites: EN110 or Th105.

TH-365   Modern American Drama (Variable; Variable; 3.00 Credits; H,CS) We will be studying plays written by American playwrights starting with Eugene O'Neill and continuing through plays from contemporary American theatre. Topics include: What is theatre " ecology " ? What is distinct about American playwrighting? How has modern American plays reflected or begun trends in theatre in the Unites States and throughoutthe world? How is the spirit or soul of our country in these plays? How are these plays reflective of gender, racial, economic, social, philosophical, political issues of American society?

TH-366   Women Playwrights (Variable; Variable; 3.00 Credits; H,CS) Women playwrights are generally " under-studied " and " under-read " in academia. A hot focus on " gender " in our study would miss a whole universe of other ideas in these plays. Such a singular study would also promote the very thinking that these playwrights would avoid-that they first " women " and then " playwrights " . And yet, look up a few inches to the title of the course. It is a hard trap to avoid, especially when trying to look at an under-studied group of artist. Still, let's admit that the course needs a title and that we are studying plays written only by women. Let's also commit to pursuing lines of thinking and discussion that honor these playwrights and plays vital to our contemporary theatre.

TH-370   Performance Lab (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 2.00 Credits; F,CS) This is the advanced performance skills class for students enrolled in the Performance POE. taught by Professor Belser in collaboration with professional artists in The Gravity Project, the course includes sections on: voice/speech/dialect work; several modes of movement training; styles of acting; advanced scene study; generating one's own performance piece; directing; and auditioning.

TH-371   Performance Lab (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 2.00 Credits; F,CS) This is the advanced performance skills class for students enrolled in the Performance POE. taught by Professor Belser in collaboration with professional artists in The Gravity Project, the course includes sections on: voice/speech/dialect work; several modes of movement training; styles of acting; advanced scene study; generating one's own performance piece; directing; and auditioning.

TH-373   Forms of Drama (Variable; Variable; 3.00 Credits; F,H) An inquiry into the nature of form and structure in dramatic literature. The course incorporates lecture and discussion with script reading and outside readings in philosophy and critical analysis. The course subtitle will change as different forms/ genres are examined. Examples are tragedy and melodrama, comedy and farce. Prerequisites: TH105 or EN341 or TH361 or one of the TH core courses.

TH-375   Arts Production Lab (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 2.00 Credits; F) The Arts Production Lab is for students enrolled in the Arts Production POE. The course explores advanced skills, concepts and practices of managing performing arts organizations. Topics include: graphic design and publications, digital video production for web and film applications, curating live arts events, installing multi-media works.

TH-376   Arts Production Lab (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 2.00 Credits; F) The Arts Production Lab is for students enrolled in the Arts Production POE. The course explores advanced skills, concepts and practices of managing performing arts organizations. Topics include: graphic design and publications, digital video production for web and film applications, curating live arts events, installing multi-media works.

TH-380   Theatre Arts Practicum (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 1.00-3.00 Credits; F,H) See TH180.

TH-381   Theatre Arts Practicum (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 1.00-3.00 Credits; F,H) See TH180.

TH-398   Prof. Training Intensive (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 1.00-3.00 Credits; F,CS) The schedule for the course work is intentionally brief-typically two weeks-but very intense (4 hours a day minimum). Theatre artists from the Gravity Project, a professional theatre company in residence at Juniata, focus on one area of training. Areas of study include: Skinner Releasing; Fitzmaurice Voicework; Ashtanga Yoga for performers; speech and dialect work; auditioning/career preparation; various dance trainings; clowning; scene study.

TH-399   Special Topics (Variable; Variable; 1.00-4.00 Credits; F) Allows the department to offer special topics not normally offered. Departments may offer more than one special topic. Prerequisites vary by title.

TH-405   Directing (Variable; Variable; 4.00 Credits; F,H,CS) The basic principles of stage directing. Areas of inquiry and practical application include: script selection and analysis, audition/casting techniques/considerations, rehearsal preparation, the prompt script, working with designers, decision making, working with actors, being a director/guide( vision, focus, note- taking, and giving), and bringing a script/actors/designers to performance. Each student will select and work on a one-act script which will be presented to the public in a spring semester Festival. Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing and permission of the instructor.

TH-406   Theatre Seminar (Variable; Variable; 3.00 Credits; F,H) An intensive concentration on a specific topic. Possible topics of inquiry are: a particular author's canon of work, personal and cultural influences on the literature (e.g. Brecht, O'Neill, etc.) a specific genre, sub groups, or practice (e.g. Women playwrights, commedia dell'arte, The Group Theatre, etc.), the interrelationship of theatre and other art forms (e.g. Performed work and Performance space, etc.). Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing and TH105 or TH205 or EN341 or EN361.

TH-470   Performance Lab (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 2.00 Credits; F) This is the advanced performance skills class for students enrolled in the Performance POE. taught by Professor Belser in collaboration with professional artists in The Gravity Project, the course includes sections on: voice/speech/dialect work; several modes of movement training; styles of acting; advanced scene study; generating one's own performance piece; directing; and auditioning.

TH-471   Performance Lab (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 2.00 Credits; F) This is the advanced performance skills class for students enrolled in the Performance POE. taught by Professor Belser in collaboration with professional artists in The Gravity Project, the course includes sections on: voice/speech/dialect work; several modes of movement training; styles of acting; advanced scene study; generating one's own performance piece; directing; and auditioning.

TH-472   Performance Lab (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 2.00 Credits; F) This is the advanced performance skills class for students enrolled in the Performance POE. taught by Professor Belser in collaboration with professional artists in The Gravity Project, the course includes sections on: voice/speech/dialect work; several modes of movement training; styles of acting; advanced scene study; generating one's own performance piece; directing; and auditioning.

TH-473   Performance Lab (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 2.00 Credits; F) This is the advanced performance skills class for students enrolled in the Performance POE. taught by Professor Belser in collaboration with professional artists in The Gravity Project, the course includes sections on: voice/speech/dialect work; several modes of movement training; styles of acting; advanced scene study; generating one's own performance piece; directing; and auditioning.

TH-475   Arts Production Lab (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 2.00 Credits; F) The Arts Production Lab is for students enrolled in the Arts Production POE. The course explores advanced skills, concepts and practices of managing performing arts organizations. Topics include: graphic design and publications, digital video production for web and film applications, curating live arts events, installing multi-media works.

TH-476   Arts Production Lab (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 2.00 Credits; F) The Arts Production Lab is for students enrolled in the Arts Production POE. The course explores advanced skills, concepts and practices of managing performing arts organizations. Topics include: graphic design and publications, digital video production for web and film applications, curating live arts events, installing multi-media works.

TH-477   Arts Production Lab (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 2.00 Credits; F) The Arts Production Lab is for students enrolled in the Arts Production POE. The course explores advanced skills, concepts and practices of managing performing arts organizations. Topics include: graphic design and publications, digital video production for web and film applications, curating live arts events, installing multi-media works.

TH-478   Arts Production Lab (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 2.00 Credits; F) The Arts Production Lab is for students enrolled in the Arts Production POE. The course explores advanced skills, concepts and practices of managing performing arts organizations. Topics include: graphic design and publications, digital video production for web and film applications, curating live arts events, installing multi-media works.

TH-480   Theatre Arts Practicum (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 1.00-3.00 Credits; F,H) See TH180.

TH-481   Theatre Arts Practicum (Fall & Spring; Yearly; 1.00-3.00 Credits; F,H) See TH180.

TH-490   Theatre Internship (Variable; Variable; 2.00-9.00 Credits; H) See Internships in the catalog. Corequisite: TH495. Prerequisite: Permission and Jr. or Sr. standing.

TH-495   Internship Research Seminar (Variable; Variable; 2.00-6.00 Credits; H) See Internships in the catalog. Corequisite: TH490. Prerequisite: Permission.

TH-TUT   Theatre Tutorial (Variable; Variable; 1.00-4.00 Credits) See Catalog.