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   Would you like to read the classical Greek plays that led to today’s theatre? Watch scenes from the latest Broadway musicals? Create scenic, lighting and costume designs … and get the chance to execute them? Write that play that has always been a dream? Work with professional theatre artists?

Consider a major or minor in theatre at Agnes Scott. Theatre is a performing art that places human experience before an audience in the present moment. Theatre holds a mirror up to nature, allowing us to see ourselves and our place in the universe in a manner that is at once immediate and timeless. As a theatre student you will develop artistic, analytical, critical and organizational capabilities as you work to realize your full creative potential.

What will I study?
The theatre curriculum integrates theory, history and practice, including foundational training in acting, directing, dramatic writing and design. Theatre students are actively involved in the departmental production program.

Whatever aspect of theatre captures your interest, Agnes Scott’s theatre program will provide challenging courses and hands-on experience. Want to become an actor? Try Acting I or Acting II. Interested in playwriting or screenwriting? Try a course in Dramatic Writing or Topics in Creative Writing. How about directing? Direct your play in Directing II. Interested in design? Try Design for the Stage I and II and learn the principles of costume, scenic and lighting design.