Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 2 hours; workshop, 2 hours; activity, 2 hours; individual study, 3 hours; written work, 1 hour; extra reading, 2 hours
Catalog page 639
Prerequisites: TFDP 109 with a grade of D or better; or consent of instructor
Description: A study of the acting fundamentals and the actor’s basic tool kit. Topics include text analysis, actions and activities, problems and objectives, and audition technique. Explores basic approaches to characterization through audition practice, monologues, and scene study using methods such as Stanislavsky’s “system,” the American Method, and Meisner Technique.