Ashland Center for Theatre Studies
Master of Theatre Studies
in Production and Design
Course Work Overview
The Ashland Center for Theatre Studies Theatre Teacher Training program for High School and Community College Teachers is an intensive experience that requires three summers with two weeks in residence in July and considerable individual effort before and after each summer. The program requires practical implementation and documentation of applied design and production projects executed in your own school. Each year focuses on a different type of theatre: presentational, representational, or musical theatre. You may join the program in any given year of the three-year cycle. The program leads to a Master of Theatre Studies in Production and Design.
Course Work includes:
- Script analysis of plays of varied styles and time periods with comprehensive discussion of the methodologies of translating dramatic themes into effective direction, design and a unified production
- Skills for communicating design ideas--research, building models, creating renderings, drafting light plots, and recording sound sketches
- Safe and cost effective techniques for realizing design concepts in production--costume, scenic and properties construction, and lighting and sound engineering
- Discussion with professionals and colleagues about Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) plays in production, examining conceptual development of direction and design ideas and the realization of those concepts into actual productions
- Stage and production management and technical direction techniques
- New technologies--how they enhance theatre crafts and integrate with theatrical processes
- Application of new concepts and skills to productions and curriculum development in your own school
Additional Activities:
- OSF 2008 productions of The Clay Cart, Our Town, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, and A View from the Bridge
- Student presentations
Additional Courses:
These courses will count towards the additional nine credits required for the Master of Theatre Studies.
Survey of Dramatic Literature: Modern Drama - an online course January 5-March 20, 2009
Choreography for Musical Theatre July 7-11, 2008
Costume Crafts from Head to Toe July 7-11, 2008
The Director and the Rehearsal Process July 7-11, 2008
VectorWorks (computer-aided design) for the Theatre July 28-August 1, 2008
Theatrical Combat Workshop June 23-July 6, 2008 presented in conjunction with Dueling Arts International
Survey of Dramatic Literature - an online course January 7-March 21, 2008
For more information contact Su Grossmann at acts@sou.edu or (541) 552-6633.
