Developing the Dramatic Idea
Open—Year
You have an idea, or vision, for a play that you would like to write. You have no particular idea for a play, yet you feel eager to explore and learn how to write in the dramatic form—which involves live characters interacting in three-dimensional space before a live audience. Either way, this course involves learning craft techniques, as well as advanced methods for dramatizing your ideas from initial scenes to completed rough first drafts. We incorporate freewriting and brainstorming techniques, acting improvisation, and audio and video recordings from your in-process work. Class texts will be selected from the white-ethnic, and African-American theatre canon. This class meets twice a week.
Theatre courses
- Acting Poetic Realism
- Acting Shakespeare
- Actor and Director Lab: PROOF
- Advanced Costume Conference
- Advanced Puppet Theatre/Performance
- Advanced Stage Combat
- Alexander Technique
- Breaking the Code
- Breathing Coordination for the Performer
- Brief Chronicle: A Short History of the Theatre
- Building a Vocal Technique
- Close Up and Personal
- Collaborative Contemporary Theater: Grad Projects I
- Comedy Workshop
- Contemporary I for Dance and Theatre
- Costume Design I
- Costume Design II
- Creating a Role
- Creation Theatre Imperatives
- Creativity Workshop
- Design Elements I
- Design Elements II
- Design Techniques in Media and Puppetry
- Developing the Dramatic Idea
- Directing, Devising, and Performance
- Directing the 20th Century: From Chekhov to Churchill
- DownStage
- Experiments in Language and Form
- Face the Blank Page
- Far-Off, Off-Off, Off-, and On-Broadway: Experiencing the 2011-2012 Theatre Season
- First-Year Studies in Theatre: Directing in the Contemporary Theatre
- First-Year Studies in Theatre: The Playwright’s Perspective
- Grad Lab
- Improvisation Laboratory
- Improvisation Techniques
- Internship Conference
- Introduction to Stage Combat
- La MaMa E.T.C.
- Lighting Design I
- Lighting Design II
- London Theatre Tour
- Making New Work
- Methods of Theatre Outreach
- Movement for Performance
- New Musical Theatre Lab
- Playwriting Techniques
- Production Workshop
- Projects
- Puppet Theatre
- REWRITE
- Scenic Design I
- Scenic Design II
- Singing Workshop
- SLC Lampoon
- Sound Design I & II
- Spencer Workshop
- Stage Management
- The Acting Process
- Theatre 360: The Big Picture
- Theatre Techniques: Actor’s Workshop
- Theatre Techniques: History and Histrionics
- Theatre Techniques: Technology
- The London Theatre Program (BADA)
- The Performing Arts for Social Change
- Tools of the Trade
- The Webisodics Project/Web Series Asylum
- Global Theatre: The Syncretic Journey
- Writers Gym
- Writing for Solo Performance
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