Theatre school training courses in Atlanta, GA (public, in-house or online)

By reading and performing selections of plays from the classical French canon, students in this course will become thoroughly familiar with the great playwrights of the French classical tradition: Jean Racine, Pierre Corneille, Marivaux and Molière. Special emphasis will be placed on the all encompassing influence of classical culture on the playwrights to be studied, as well as the performative influences of the Italian commedia troupes. Every opportunity will be taken to view plays from the cl...

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This course focuses on the onstage arrangement of actors and the intersection of design elements. Students will learn the vocabularies?both verbal and physical?to properly move and place themselves onstage, to enhance the possibilities of the playwright, the work of the director, and their own characterizations.

This course is designed to introduce a variety of voice training methods. The student explores alignment, breath and vocal production to examine their habits and then moves to awareness, mobility, freedom and strong vocal support. Through the course of study the student will be able to link the diverse vocal pedagogies to varying performance demands and venues for optimal vocal ease and clarity.

This course surveys the development and history of Western theater from the classical era to the present. The influences of theater architecture, technology, politics, literature and major contributions to the evolution of drama are considered.

Through improvisation and observation, the student will develop a freedom of expression, both physical and vocal, in the creation of interesting, unique characters. Beginning with the observation of animals and then moving to historical and current human characters the student will enhance their abilities to use physical and vocal techniques as well as mimicry to portray believable characters. The course will culminate in presentations that show a mastery of the fundamental art of character crea...

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