Langue orale et théâtre / Theater and Language

This course aims at developing ease, fluidity, and efficiency in oral expression through the medium of theater. By interpreting characters in short contemporary plays, students work both on phonetic and intonative accuracy and on their body language. Students are going to study three plays by French-speaking authors. Each play in its own way and in three different forms handles the questions of transmission, memory and language.
The course will be articulated in a dynamic, participative and creative way around three axes: Dramaturgic study of texts: reading, discussion, and analysis; Exercises stemming from the theatrical pedagogy to improve the qualities of articulation, pronunciation, memorization, verbal ease and public speaking; Staging extracts of the plays studied will close the course.

Plays:
Habbat Alep by Gustave Akakpo
Mon père qui fonctionnait par périodes culinaires et autres by Elizabeth Mazev
Le phare by Sonia Ristic

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This level has a three-tiered structure, in which each course carries one unit of credit:
- All students must take the course in advanced grammar and composition
- All students must take the oral production course
- Students choose two of the courses on drama, literature and culture and society.