Create a Group of 4-6 peers

Composition of group may relate to areas of interest.
(Elementary, Secondary Level, Adult, Special Needs)

Project Components:
Performance
Workshop / Active Participation
Resource Handout
Documentation

Select an Area of Research & Presentation
Puppet/Mask Theater
Scripted Drama:
Readers theater, chamber theater, story theater
Video Project
Shadow Theater
Blacklight Theater
Specific Project: Bringing some drama related
experience to a focus group.
Mixed Media presentation

Class Presentation (45 min)
presentation (15 min) | resource sharing (5 min) | practical workshop (15 min) | question & answers (5)

Evaluation
Group Mark:
presentation /15
resource sharing /10
practical workshop / 15
documentation / 10

Total /50

This document is only a guideline. Final project shape and form finalized in consultation.

1. Training/ Many of this course’s exercises encourage “letting go” resistances and static frames of reference; encouraging the point at which an individual’s spontaneity arises to meet a crisis; a moment of seeing things from a different point of view; an insight into the point of concentration. Reflect on your actor’s training to date. Precisely and concisely formulate what you consider to be the foundations of an actor’s training. As you identify the elements essential to an actor’s training use observations from your journal to support your position.

2. Text/ Stanislavski wrote: “ . . . The actor must not only know the words but take them into himself organically until he has transformed them into his very own. Words not impregnated with inner feeling, or spoken separately without relationship are so many empty sounds . . . Yet the simplest words, if they convey complex thoughts can change our whole outlook on life . . . Words can arouse all our five senses . . . Ideas . . . Action.” Articulate your understanding of “text work”. Discuss the processes involved in using text as a searching. Select a colleagues “text work” and penetrate your impressions of their work. Present any specific insights gained about the process of acting.

3. Theater/ What is theater? Develop your answer from the productions you have attended this term. Address the greater question of communication and expression.

4. Reading/ Formulate a question based on your readings or select a topic and write a short essay. The way of the actor has a history of struggle, progress and development. Bates has suggested it may be a lost tradition. Trace Bates’ voyage through his brief history of the way of the actor. What are the concepts and practices that make an invisible actor?

1. Keep a class journal. An entry for each class documenting your experience. (Guidelines)

2. Exams

3. Lab Projects

4. Group Project

5. Files

6. News