AC305R

Actors will acquire the tools needed to approach a range of texts whose structure is not rooted in realism or linear plot and character development. Projects will focus on expanding the actors ability to create a character arc and believable reality within plays that are nonrealistic and/or dreamlike in their mood and structure, language and sense of reality or that explore an absurdist view of modern life. Students will study core nonlinear and absurdist masters, including Samuel Beckett, Eugne Ionesco and Jean Genet, as well as other major dramatists of the genre.