Title:
Dramatic Interpretation II

Offered:
Full Year

Instructors:
Faculty

Description:

Character Masks: The challenge is to create, through the use of a given mask, the body, mind, and heart of an eccentric — often comedic — character. The change of physical identity involved breaks down inhibitions and serves not only to release the student's imaginative capacity for transformation, but to prepare the way for equally courageous characterization without a mask.

Physical Comedy: A workshop designed to help students overcome the anxiety that comes from a sense of obligation to be funny and to develop a comedic point of view. Improvisation in a variety of styles is developed with the class as an audience. Emphasis is on the need to approach comedic material with the same process and commitment appropriate to any other acting challenge.

Point of View: See First Year.

Rehearsal Projects: See First Year.

Scene Study: The discovery and development of imaginative and technical skills which, together with the skills acquired in the first year, will enable the student to discern the inner world of a play and to learn to transform into a living character within it.

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