2010-2011 Academic Catalog 
    
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2010-2011 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

FREN 165 - Theater Workshop in French

Type of Course: Lecture, Discussion
A workshop course using scene study to provide direct experience of the theatrical synthesis within which play, actor and spectator operate. Emphasizes vocal delivery through intensive work on diction, phrasing, rhythm and gesture. Explores various approaches to the play’s staging. Typically one playwright is studied and topics of theatrical practice are combined with theoretical issues concerning the social background and artistic conventions of the playwright’s period. Playwrights studied may be: Molière, Marivaux, Ionesco, Beckett. Conducted in French.

Prerequisites: One French course above 130 or permission.

Cross Listed: TA 169 

Instructor: Mr. Spingler

When Offered: Offered periodically

Faculty: Michael Spingler, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of French Adjunct Associate Professor of Screen Studies