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Longstreet
Theatre
Green and Sumter Streets
Main Office, Room 402
Columbia, SC 29208
phone:
803.777.4288
fax: 803.777.6669
email: theatre@sc.edu or dance@sc.edu
For specifics on theatre major requirements,
consult
the Bulletin
for Undergraduate Theatre.
For specifics on theatre minor requirements,
consult the Minor in Theatre and Dance Requirements
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Undergraduates Jessica A. Fox and Patrick Pinnell played the leads in John Olive's The Voice of the Prairie, March 2000. |
Are you ready
to make theatre?Where do you start? Who will help you take the raw material that is you and transform it into a polished and powerful artist? Where do you go to acquire a confident technique and to learn your craft? There is a place where the intensity of your desire will be matched by dedication to your growth into a theatre artist. We have the teachers, designers, and guest artists. We have the theatres. We put on the plays, with lots of roles to go around, with professional-quality stage designs, costumes and lighting. We live, work and play in a vibrant urban center, with opportunities forculture and fun.
You can at the
University of South Carolina
at Columbia!
Excitement
We stage great plays of the present and
the past, with large casts.
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We
are proud of our three fully-equipped theatres. Longstreet
Theatre is the best arena theatre in the southeast, a modern
gem built inside of an antebellum chapel. Drayton Hall,
the main proscenium theatre, was recently remodeled and is
intimate and warm. Our funky black-box theatre offers
room to experiment.
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A fully-independent undergraduate theatre
organization plans up to six plays a semester. |
| Undergraduate Stephen Cone played the villian in Joshua SobolÍs holocaust drama Ghetto, February 2001. |  |
Opportunity
| Assistantships, scholarships and awards are available for
undergraduates. You can earn while working on your craft.
Or win awards through outstanding academic and artistic achievement.
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Study
abroad and Student Exchange programs allow under-graduates
to learn more about theatre internationally or at other American
universities.
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| Our theatre alumni have an exciting variety of quality opportunities
after they graduate. Some have active careers in the visual
and performing arts and media. And because our undergrads receive
a liberal arts education, they are welcome in business, too.
Other undergrads go on to study at top graduate schools and
professional training programs.
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Undergraduates Stephen Cone, Eric Abrams and Chad Williams played the comic trio of Toby Belch, Andrew Aguecheek and Fabian in ShakespeareÍs Twelfth Night, September 2000. |
Quality
| We have an outstanding theatre faculty of fifteen full-time
teachers with national reputations in their fields.
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| The ratio of faculty to undergraduate students is one to four.
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Our teachers are members of Actors Equity, Screen Actors’ Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, United Scenic Artists and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
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| Internationally recognized guest artists act, direct, design
and teach undergraduates during extended visits to our department.
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| USC's undergraduate theatre degree is accredited by the National
Association of Schools of Theatre and the University/Resident
Theatre Association.
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| The department is affiliated with three great regional theatres, The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C.; the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA; and The Milwaukee Repertory Company. |
| Undergraduate Lorry Houston, surrounded by other plantation workers, listened to the conjurer played by MFA candidate Karyn Johnston in Rita DoveÍs The Darker Face of the Earth, April 2001. |  |
Select for the Bulletin for Undergraduate Theatre.
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