Acting I: Beginning Acting Rigorous physical and psychophysical exercises attempt to break through the cultural and psychological barriers that inhibit an open responsiveness to impulses, to the environment, and to others. Attempt is made to free personal response within improvised scenes and, eventually, within the narrative structure of a naturalistic scene. Attention is given to various theories of acting technique. Students are expected to audition for departmental shows.

Gerald Boddie

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Acting with Boddie was an interesting experience. I made a lot of friends in this class, and really enjoyed the performance aspect of the course. Given that I had a little bit of experience in acting, and that I did and still do have preconceived notions of what it means to act, I did not enjoy the day-to-day assignments/acting prompts given. We essentially only explored dialogue and had to create our own scenarios and characters, which I personally disagreed with. I also thought it to be unfair that group acting was graded as a group rather than individually. Otherwise, the class was fun, there was little reading involved, a small amount of memorization, and a lot of creativity.