Introduction to Theater Making is a working laboratory, which gives students hands-on experience with theatre's fundamental building blocks — writing, design, acting, directing, and producing.
Theater & Music Theater Courses
Theater & Music Theater
An introduction to the craft of acting through scene study, monologues and, finally, a longer scene drawn from a play, to develop a method of working on a script. Emphasis will be placed on honesty, spontaneity, and establishing a personal connection with the scene's substance.
This is a workshop in the fundamentals of writing plays. Through writing prompts, exercises, study and reflection, students will be guided in the creation of original dramatic material.
Telling stories through performance is human nature, but how can we use technology to enhance, frame, or reveal new perspectives on stories told?
Telling stories through performance is human nature, but how can we use technology to enhance, frame, or reveal new perspectives on stories told?
L'Avant-Scène will offer students the opportunity to put their language skills in motion by discovering French theater in general and by acting in French, in particular.
Exploding Text is a hands-on exploration of spoken word/performance.
A continuation of THR 201: Guide students in ways to develop a role and to explore important texts and characters in an imaginative and honest manner.
This introductory course will provide a critical opportunity to explore the mutual craft of directing actors and acting for directors, with the goal of creating credible performances on screen.
This is a workshop based class for those interested in multi-skilled performance and in how performance skills can illuminate new forms of theatre making.
This course offers an intensive survey of gender crossings on the American musical theater stage.
This workshop course rehearses the writing and performance skills necessary to remake the raw material drawn from lived experience into compelling autobiographical storytelling.
A study of major plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekov, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett and others. Artists who revolutionized the stage by transforming it into a venue for avant-garde social, political, psychological, artistic and metaphysical thought, creating the theatre we know today.
The course will explore the creation, production, and management of pioneering international festivals from France's main historic festivals, such as Festival d'Avignon and Festival d'Automne, to more recent and emerging ones worldwide. It will use Le Festival de Princeton, Princeton French Theater Festival's sixth annual edition, as a case study, and closely follow its offerings at the onset of the fall semester.
This course is designed to endow students with the conceptual and practical skills that will enable them to design for productions in the theater program.
Special directing assignments will be made for each student, whose work will be analyzed by the instructor and other members of the workshop.
Theatrical designer/stage director Michael Counts and conductor/composer Jayce Ogren will explore the innermost workings of Mozart’s Symphony #40.
This course will take the form of an interdisciplinary, creative investigation of a rarely discussed chapter of Princeton’s past: the University's history as it relates to the institution of slavery in America.