THEA 025. Solo Performance

This course serves as both a study and practice of different forms of solo performance including the first-person autobiographical monologue, multiple-characters played by a single performer, and performance art. Part-survey course, part-performance workshop, students will be asked to intellectually engage with the work of renowned solo performance makers and to create their own work, generating original performance material on a weekly basis. Over the course of the semester, students will create 3-4 individual solo performance pieces, culminating in a final showing for the public. The work made during the course will explore personal storytelling, devising, the body as subject, and the transformative actor.  This class is rooted in empowering artists to articulate what matters to them and finding a translation of that into performance.
Fulfills a general requirement for all theater majors and minors.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Fall 2023. Torra.
Spring 2026. Torra.
Catalog chapter: Theater
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/department-theater

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