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THDA 640W (01) - Playwriting

Playwriting

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2022 - Full Term (08/29/2022 - 12/12/2022)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   12  
CRN: 11938
Special Fees: $24.00
To illuminate and guide each student through the art and craft of writing for performance. This course explores the fundamental principles needed to build a realistic play that is intended to be produced upon the stage. Though the course is built around the construction of plays, the principles, writing exercises, readings, and other assignments serve as a solid base for any form of dialogue driven writing. Special fee. Writing intensive.
Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.
Equivalent(s): THDA 540, THDA 540W, THDA 750, THEA 750
Attributes: Writing Intensive Course
Instructors: Nina Morrison
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/29/2022 12/12/2022 MW 2:10pm - 3:30pm PCAC M316
Additional Course Details: 

Course Description

What makes a great play great? What stories need to be told on stage now? This collaborative writing workshop will investigate the essential skills for playwrights including creating dynamic characters, dramatic action, and dialogue that makes us lean in to listen. We will analyze the dramatic techniques of modern masters as well as acclaimed contemporary playwrights. Through interactive exercises and assignments each student will develop their own unique playwriting voice. Everyone will hear newly written pages out loud – absolutely essential for playwrights – and receive constructive feedback. Classes will be a mix of writing exercises, lectures on craft, in-depth analysis of classic and contemporary plays, and discussions of student work, culminating in the creation of original one-act plays.

 

Nina’s Note

My goal is to help you discover and nurture the storyteller within – the observer, questioner, and inventor. We will continually ask the big questions: What motivates human behavior? What makes a story relevant, entertaining, compelling, or moving? What responsibilities to our community do we have as storytellers?  In what way is an artist a public intellectual? Does all art have a political, moral, and/or ethical point of view? What makes a great play great? What if…?

 

The workshop atmosphere is one of support and generosity toward new work and experimentation. You’ll be asked to experiment in your own writing as well as to welcome the very different experiments of your fellow writers. The workshop environment is a shared creation, and all members are responsible for sustaining it so that all feel free to work, to try new things, to take risks. You will all serve as actors for your fellow students. By the end of the course you will lead discussions of your own work.

 

I encourage you to participate in theatre at UNH as much as you can – and when possible, beyond – as audience members, onstage performers, directors, designers, technicians, or in any other capacity, understanding that any participation improves your vision and understanding of the art of theatre, and your awareness as a playwright.

 

Course Goals

Students will:

  • Strengthen skills of observation, analysis and inquiry
  • Gain a practical understanding of playwriting fundamentals
  • Gather techniques to conquer the blank page and methods for revision
  • Read a wide range of professional modern and contemporary writing for the theatre
  • Develop their own unique aesthetic, creative writing practice, and voice
  • Develop drafts through exploration, revision, and feedback
  • Learn how to contribute to the development of their fellow writers’ work
  • Write and revise a ten-minute play, and a one-act play 

  • Ask: Why theatre? What is it for? What can it do? 


 

Required Books and Materials

The required book is available at the UNH Bookstore, the Durham Book Exchange, and the Dimond Library as an ebook.

  • Playwriting With Purpose by Jacqueline Goldfinger
  • A Journal with full-size pages dedicated to playwriting

THDA 655 (01) - Musical Theatre Scene Study

Musical Theatre Scene Study

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2022 - Full Term (08/29/2022 - 12/12/2022)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   16  
CRN: 15000
Builds on and expands the techniques learned in Acting I and Musical Theatre Voice I, with a special emphasis on partner work and scene study.
Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.
Prerequisite(s): THDA 551 and THDA 555
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/29/2022 12/12/2022 TR 2:10pm - 3:30pm PCAC M213
8/29/2022 12/12/2022 Hours Arranged PCAC M313

THDA 662 (01) - Ballet III

Ballet III

Credits: 2.0
Term: Fall 2022 - Full Term (08/29/2022 - 12/12/2022)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   25  
CRN: 15354
Advanced-level course in technique. Open to both majors and non-majors.
Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.
Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 16 credits.
Instructors: Assaf Benchetrit
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/29/2022 12/12/2022 MWF 2:10pm - 4:00pm NHH NDS

THDA 663 (01) - Theatre Dance III

Theatre Dance III

Credits: 2.0
Term: Fall 2022 - Full Term (08/29/2022 - 12/12/2022)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   25  
CRN: 10650
Special Fees: $24.00
This dance technique class is an extension of THDA 563. Students will become seasoned in contemporary jazz, musical theatre style jazz and tap dance. Technical execution, choreographic artistry and improvisation will be explored. Class open to both majors and non-majors. Special Fee.
Department Approval Required. Contact Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.
Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 16 credits.
Equivalent(s): THCO 663, THEA 663
Instructors: Mary Marino
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/29/2022 12/12/2022 MWF 10:40am - 12:00pm NHH NDS

THDA 665 (01) - Aerial Dance

Aerial Dance

Credits: 2.0
Term: Fall 2022 - Full Term (08/29/2022 - 12/12/2022)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   16  
CRN: 10952
Special Fees: $20.00
The study of aerial arts including two and one point trapeze and fabric. Class open to both majors and non-majors.
Section Comments: This course is NOT open to FRESHMEN.
Department Approval Required. Contact Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.
Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 16 credits.
Instructors: Gay Nardone
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/29/2022 12/12/2022 MWF 12:10pm - 2:00pm NHH NDS

THDA 700 (01) - Musical Theatre Voice III

Musical Theatre Voice III

Credits: 1.0
Term: Fall 2022 - Full Term (08/29/2022 - 12/12/2022)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   20  
CRN: 15001
This course is a continuation of THDA 600: Musical Theatre Voice II. Students continue to develop their skills of vocal technique, analysis, and performance established in Musical Theatre Voice II, while focusing these skills towards their application in auditioning for, and performing in, professional theatre.
Department Approval Required. Contact Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.
Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 3 credits.
Instructors: Melissa Manseau
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/29/2022 12/12/2022 Hours Arranged TBA

THDA 732 (01) - Choreography

Choreography

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2022 - Full Term (08/29/2022 - 12/12/2022)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   10  
CRN: 16131
Theoretical and practical consideration of the creative and aesthetic aspects of ballet, modern, and theatre dance. Special fee.
Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.
Prerequisite(s): THDA 633
Equivalent(s): THCO 732, THEA 732
Instructors: Assaf Benchetrit
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/29/2022 12/12/2022 TR 2:10pm - 3:30pm NHH STGE

THDA 741 (01) - Directing

Directing

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2022 - Full Term (08/29/2022 - 12/12/2022)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   12  
CRN: 13236
Special Fees: $24.00
A process oriented approach to the art of stage directing. The course begins with an in-depth focus on script analysis. Students then develop their skills as the "master storyteller" through imagination, interpretation, communication, and style. Special fee.
Department Approval Required. Contact Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.
Prerequisite(s): THDA 551 and THDA 552
Instructors: David Kaye
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/29/2022 12/12/2022 MWF 3:40pm - 5:30pm PCAC M118

THDA 795 (01) - Independent Study

Independent Study

Credits: 1.0 to 8.0
Term: Fall 2022 - Full Term (08/29/2022 - 12/12/2022)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   5  
CRN: 10651
Advanced individual study. Specific independent study opportunities are sometimes posted in the Theatre and Dance Department Office. Project, which includes a substantial piece of writing, must be developed with supervising instructor.
Department Approval Required. Contact Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.
Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits.
Equivalent(s): THCO 795, THDA 795W
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/29/2022 12/12/2022 Hours Arranged TBA

THDA 795W (01) - Independent Study

Independent Study

Credits: 1.0 to 8.0
Term: Fall 2022 - Full Term (08/29/2022 - 12/12/2022)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   5  
CRN: 11148
Advanced individual study. Specific independent study opportunities are sometimes posted in the Theatre and Dance Department Office. Project, which includes a substantial piece of writing, must be developed with supervising instructor.
Department Approval Required. Contact Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.
Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits.
Equivalent(s): THCO 795, THDA 795, THEA 795
Attributes: Writing Intensive Course
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/29/2022 12/12/2022 Hours Arranged TBA