Rouse Company Foundation Student Services Building

THET 202 Advanced Acting

In this course, the student actor expands on the critical thinking and artistic skills initiated in THET 103, creating a more mature dialogue between theory and practice through extended scenes, deeper character work, strong partnering, and detailed script analysis combined with a disciplined approach to the rehearsal process.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

THET 103

Corequisite

THET 260

Hours Weekly

3 hours weekly

Course Objectives

  1. Organize and articulate, through a variety of creative approaches, an advanced-level script
    analysis to enhance and clarify performance choices by sub-dividing major beats into smaller
    units and tying beat elements to the character’s super-objective and the action’s spine.
  2. Communicate, through effective partnering, scenes that exhibit strong opposing objectives,
    complex psychological relationships, creative psycho-physical actions, and suspense-inducing
    obstacles.
  3. Use a variety of vocal techniques and inflections as well as symbolic movements inspired by
    inner images and experimentation to create expressive delivery of the character’s objectives
    and actions.
  4. Analyze one’s own artistic style and choices, remaining flexible to the changing dynamics of
    the collaborative process, and revise one’s performance based on self-evaluation and the
    diverse voices of partners, peers, and instructor, and offer constructive and respectful
    criticism of peer performances and live theatre events.
  5. Identify and apply concepts and theories of enduring and contemporary issues of aesthetics
    and creativity, through demonstrations of public solitude, heightened urgency, present
    versus future circumstances, life observation, primary and secondary fourth walls, physical
    endowment, and substitutions to generate innovative solutions to acting challenges.
  6. Incorporate innovation, risk-taking, and creativity into performance choices through
    investigation of one’s own sense memory and emotional memory on an advanced level
    combined with the character’s inner images, inner monologues, and inner problems, using
    divergent or contradictory perspectives or ideas from partners, peers, and instructor.
  7. Pose and address questions related to the confluence of creative expression with social and
    cultural contexts of the script and the imagined character background and history.
  8. Assess, reflect on, and critically analyze the role of theatre and performance in illuminating
    the human condition.

Course Objectives

  1. Organize and articulate, through a variety of creative approaches, an advanced-level script
    analysis to enhance and clarify performance choices by sub-dividing major beats into smaller
    units and tying beat elements to the character’s super-objective and the action’s spine.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Advanced scoring of scene for performance

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Oral Communication Rubric

    Oral Communication

    • OC1
  2. Communicate, through effective partnering, scenes that exhibit strong opposing objectives,
    complex psychological relationships, creative psycho-physical actions, and suspense-inducing
    obstacles.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Structured scene improvisation, rehearsals, and performance of scene

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Oral Communication Rubric

    Oral Communication

    • OC2
  3. Use a variety of vocal techniques and inflections as well as symbolic movements inspired by
    inner images and experimentation to create expressive delivery of the character’s objectives
    and actions.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Structured scene improvisation, rehearsals, and performance of scene

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Oral Communication Rubric

    Oral Communication

    • OC3
  4. Analyze one’s own artistic style and choices, remaining flexible to the changing dynamics of
    the collaborative process, and revise one’s performance based on self-evaluation and the
    diverse voices of partners, peers, and instructor, and offer constructive and respectful
    criticism of peer performances and live theatre events.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Adjusting performance based on direction and constructive criticism; Written critique for live theatre event

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Oral Communication Rubric

    Oral Communication

    • OC4
  5. Identify and apply concepts and theories of enduring and contemporary issues of aesthetics
    and creativity, through demonstrations of public solitude, heightened urgency, present
    versus future circumstances, life observation, primary and secondary fourth walls, physical
    endowment, and substitutions to generate innovative solutions to acting challenges.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Class exercises; Structured scene improvisation and scene rehearsal.

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric

    Creative Process

    • CP1
  6. Incorporate innovation, risk-taking, and creativity into performance choices through
    investigation of one’s own sense memory and emotional memory on an advanced level
    combined with the character’s inner images, inner monologues, and inner problems, using
    divergent or contradictory perspectives or ideas from partners, peers, and instructor.

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric
  7. Pose and address questions related to the confluence of creative expression with social and
    cultural contexts of the script and the imagined character background and history.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Character history and inspirational images; Formal written critique of live theatre event

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric

    Creative Process

    • CP3
  8. Assess, reflect on, and critically analyze the role of theatre and performance in illuminating
    the human condition.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Written response paper

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric

    Creative Process

    • CP4