THEA 31 Acting II
Acting II is an advanced scene study class that focuses on developing a process for performing non-realistic, “heightened” acting texts. Students will encounter plays that present unique challenges for actors in terms of language, physicality, characterization, style, content and text analysis. The class will structurally fuse the traditionally separate disciplines of acting, voice, and movement into a comprehensive unit by approaching the text simultaneously from these three perspectives. The work will proceed from the assumption that the actor’s performance must emerge from an expressively free and integrated instrument.