BART 93A00 - Acting: the key to understand society ?

BART 93A00 · Spring semester 2025-2026

Language of tuition
English
Course type
Atelier artistique du Collège
Number of hours
24
Credits
3

Information

Description

This workshop will explore the question of our relationship to ourselves and to the others. With this in mind, the students will be led to discover what acting implies, through a practice oriented towards plays that can influence our relationship in the society.

References like movies, plays, music will be encouraged during the workshop. And if “going to the cinema” or a “play or a concert” allowed to understand the world around you?...

Assessment

  • Acting exercices: warm-up, improvisations, basic acting techniques, implications in the workshop. 20% of the final grade.
  • Proposal and desire to act (participation) 30% of the final grade.
  • Taking into account my comments and try to incorporate them into the scenes. 30% of the final grade.
  • Brief synopsis on a theme given at the first workshop. This synopsis will be given at the last session. 20% of the final grade.

This workshop requires regularity, the taste of reading and resear

Readings

Main readings 5

  1. Death of a salesman, Arthur Miller

    Borrow

  2. Fool for love, Sam Shepard

  3. Hopscotch, Shooting gallery, Morning, Israel Horovitz

    Borrow

  4. Sight unseen, Donald Margulies

    Read online

  5. Smoke, Brooklyn Boogie, Lulu on the bridge, Paul Auster

    Borrow

Further readings 4

  1. A life in the theater, David Mamet

    Borrow

  2. A street car named desire, Tennessee Williams

  3. My diner with Andre, Wallace Shawn and André Gregory

    Borrow

  4. Richard III, Shakespeare

    Read online

Teaching units

Unit no.Unit type Teaching unitsTeachers Number of hoursCredits
58046Atelier artistique du Collège Acting: the key to understand society ? Antonio LABATI243

Teachers

  • Antonio LABATI