CONCENTRATION & MINOR in theBA ENGLISH MAJOR

What You’ll Study

Studying theatre empowers you to work together with your peers to bring artistic visions to life. It prepares you to lead a life distinguished by self-awareness, open communication, and making a difference. Theatre studies within Warren Wilson’s well-rounded liberal arts curriculum will expand your intellectual, emotional, and practical capacities by teaching you the broad range of skills needed to create theatre and by investigating the purpose of theatre as collaborative art.

You have the opportunity to take courses spanning a range of plays, historical styles, and theatrical arts. You’ll apply your classroom learning in productions and projects staged by the Warren Wilson Theatre, the department’s performance laboratory. Here, in collaboration with diverse members of the campus community, you’ll explore contemporary staging techniques as applied to texts from various periods and cultures, as well as contemporary dramatic and post-dramatic texts, musical comedy, original, and devised work.

By studying theatre, you will develop:

  • 识别和表达自己和他人艺术作品的目的、价值和效果的能力。
  • 这是参与戏剧视觉有效实施的基本技能。
  • 当你在艺术成果上获得更大的投资时,你会欣赏到良好合作过程的重要性。
  • 戏剧背景,以更好地整合您的学术,工作和社区经验。

Explore Classes in This Program

THR 244

Improvisation for the Actor

识别冲动并对其采取行动的能力是行动和许多其他活动的核心。这门课程教你接触你与生俱来的自发创造的能力,并在此过程中建立你的自信和协作技能。活动包括戏剧游戏、动作练习、讲故事练习和面具工作。因为这项工作可以引导许多方向(如探索个性、社会地位、角色扮演、性格,以及使用即兴创作作为排练工具),课程的具体内容可能每年都在变化。

ENG 344

Literature and Culture of the Restoration and Queen Anne Period

In this course, you’ll examine diverse written materials and visual arts of England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. During this period, English men and women witnessed continual wars with European powers, nation-shaking political plots and intrigues, a devastating outbreak of bubonic plague, the Great Fire of London, and the first actresses upon the London stage. Politicians and some writers of this age sought, against all odds, to restore stability to society and politics, while other writers and artists celebrated the new cultural freedoms at the royal court, as well as innovations in science, literature, and the theatre.

THR 315

Historic Costume Design for the Theatre

This course covers the theory and practical application of design. Through studies of color, form, balance, and accuracy of historical research, you’ll discover the total visual experience of the stage presentation as well as individual character analysis and interpretation. You also get to explore costumes through the ages for their aesthetic value and as reflections of and insights into the culture, history, and values of their times.

Meet Our Faculty

如果没有坎迪斯,我不可能得到这个角色。不用说,当我来到威尔逊的时候,我知道我想演戏,但我很害怕……那是最可怕的事。坎迪斯一直跟我合作。

Lewis Pullman '15
Candace Taylor
Candace Taylor, M.F.A
drama students

I love that all our first-year seminars partner with a local non-profit whose mission is related to the academic theme of the course. Students are asked to reflect upon why the organization is meaningful, and whether it’s the kind of work they might like to do upon graduation.

Carol Howard, Ph.D.
Carol Howard
Carol Howard, Ph.D.
Candace Taylor