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Dec 26, 2024
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DRA 945 - Practicum I Credits: 2 Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 4 Practicum Hours: 0 Work Experience: 0 Course Type: General Practical experience in acting, directing and stage design. Students will be involved in all stages of production from auditions to final performance. May be repeated for up to eight semester hours of credit. Competencies
- Memorize lines and cues
- Develop character
- Analyze script/scenes
- Incorporate gestures and other nonverbal appropriate to character
- Use vocal appropriate to character
- Record stage directions
- Attend all rehearsals as scheduled
- Follow stage directions/stage terminology
- Seek and respond to feedback from the director
- Help seek props and costumes for his/her character
- Perform on nights of shows
- Build set
- Operate tools appropriate to task
- Develop a vocabulary of stage construction terms (flat, stage brace, header, etc
- Assemble a flat
- Paint flats
- Join flats
- Attend set work as scheduled
- Strike set
- Make or find costumes in accordance to costume plot
- Care for costumes
- Repair costumes
- Launder/iron costumes
- Apply character makeup
- Clean makeup brushes, sponges, counters, etc
- Identify types of lighting interests and their functions
- Set lights
- Mark light cues in script
- Run light board during technical week and for performances
- Assemble program
- Collect biographies from actors
- Edit biographies
- Gather relevant data – list of characters, setting of play, list of crews, etc
- Create posters
- Distribute posters
- Assemble picture board
- Take publicity photos
- Print tickets
- Make prompt book
- Record stage directions for all actors
- Make property list/cues
- Not lights/sound cues
- Prompt actors on line cues
- Stand in for actors absent during rehearsals
- Help set stage for rehearsals
- Help run show once it opens
- List all necessary props and who uses them when – make poster of this for back stage
- Find/make all props
- Set props before all shows/reset after show
- Report breakage, necessary repairs and replacement of props
- Return props to owners after final show
- Open house
- Supervise ushers/ticket takers
- Assist in ticket sales/seating, etc
- Greet people
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