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DRAMA I #432 ½ Credit

Length of course: 1 semester

Grade Level: 9-12 Prerequisite: Drama I and permission of the Teacher

This Course will continue developing the skills needed to analyze and perform dramatic texts.  The expectations for Drama I apply for Drama II, however the students in Drama II are expected and required to be more self-disciplined and more self-motivated.  The topics in this class rotate every semester.  Unit subjects include, but are not limited to: Directing, Advanced Improvisation, Acting Shakespeare, Stage Dialects, Advanced Playwriting, Greek Tragedy, Non-Realistic Drama, Commedia Dell’Arte, Children’s Theatre, Film Acting, Musical Theatre and Stage Combat.  This course is repeatable for elective credits only.

Drama II

Drama II Units

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UNIT ONE 
DUO ACTING SCENE

Unit Two: Greek Tragedy

Unit Two: Theatre of the Absurd

Unit Three: Storytelling

Unit Three: Musical theatre

Unit Three: Playwriting

Unit Three: Stage Dialects

Unit Three: Acting for Film

Drama II 

Unit 

Cycle

Unit Two: Commedia Dell'Arte

Included below is a list of texts, which will make up the reading list for the Drama course

(although not all of these works may be covered during this school year – we cover only 1 or 2, per year, depending on the unit cycle.)

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (Play)

  • Antigone by Sophocles (Play)

  • Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Short Story/Play)

  • Endgame by Samuel Beckett (Play)

  • Kiss Me Kate by Cole Porter, Sam/Bella Spewack & Shakespeare (Musical)

  • Pippin by Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson (Musical)

  • Ready-to-Tell Tales by David Holt and Bill Mooney (Tall Tales)

  • Sonnets by William Shakespeare (Poems)

  • The Three Cuckolds by Leon Katz (Play)

  • The Trial by Anthony Booth (One Act)

  • The Weapon by Cory Smith (Play)

  • The Weapon by Fredric Brown (Short Story)

  • Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett (Play)

  • Tame excerpts from the following screenplays: American Beauty by Alan Ball, Exotica by Atom Egoyan and The Great Gatsby by John J. McLaughlin

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