DRA 132 - Acting II
Last Date of Approval: Spring 2021
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
Acting II works beyond the fundamentals of acting covered in Acting I. The focus shifts from the building blocks of acting technique to practical application in scene work. While there will be some advanced improvisational technique, the bulk of the course centers on vocal and physical interpretation of characters and to the staging choices students make in preparing and performing their scenes. Acting II helps students continue to build on their confidence in their communication and performance skills while also enabling them to think critically, consider the viewpoints of others, and effectively express themselves, all of which will benefit them in the classroom, in life, and in the workforce.
Prerequisites: DRA 130 - Acting I or permission of the instructor
Mode(s) of Instruction: Traditional/face-to-face
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: None
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Analyze acting roles and break down the characterizations into intentions, objectives and super objectives, including character-givens and character histories.
- Discover the physical actions for a scene based on the given circumstances supplied by the dramatist.
- Answer the specific questions of “Who? What? Where? When? Why” before embarking upon an acting scene.
Demonstrate improvement in blocking and incorporating appropriate and creative stage business and believable movement patterns.
- Demonstrate improvement in intuitive characterizations.
- Illustrate the signficance of appropriate stage business when staging a scene.
- Characterize using externals in performance.
- Assess individual performance on all acting exercises and performance.
Achieve vocal control of interpretive aspects such as volume, flexibility, energy, articulation, tempo, inflection.
Perform class exercises with energy, concentration, creativity and character connection.
- Commit to the actions chosen for scene work and evoke belief in the actions.
- Adapt to other characters in a variety of scenes and acting exercises.
Interpret, block, rehearse, memorize and perform a variety of acting exercises, including a portion of a play for assessment (more than one if time allows).
- Illustrate memorization technique by performing “Words” and a Shakespearean sonnet.
- Attend all practice sessions with teammates in the collaborative process of staging.
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