This program is designed to provide acting and directing students with first-hand experience of the Stanislavsky“system” of acting from master artist-teachers at the Moscow Art Theatre School. Also to provide theatre design/technology, management, or theatre history students with direct experience of scenic/costume/lighting design, management, or Russian theatre history from professionals and master teachers from the Moscow Art Theatre and its associated professional school.

The program is a summer term (four weeks on site) travel-study program at the Moscow Art Theatre School. Moscow is the historical home of Konstantin Stanislavsky’s influential “system” of acting. It is also the home of the Bolshoi Theatre, the Taganka Theatre, the Vakhtangov Theatre and many other professional theatres and training institutes of international distinction.

The program is open to serious theatre students professionals, and teacher-observers and consists of an intensive college credit course. It is open to both graduates and undergraduates admitted to a degree-granting college or university. It is designed primarily with the needs of students in acting, directing or design in mind, but will also appeal to those with broader interests in theatre history, technical theatre or theatre management. This class is for academic credit only and space is limited.

Faculty, scholars, instructors, technicians and artists from the Moscow Art Theatre School provide a program of workshops, practical work, and lectures as well as field studies to Moscow theatres and other sites of theatrical and historical interest.

Because of WSU’s special relationship with the Moscow Art Theatre School, the Department of Theatre can provide master teachers, newly renovated dormitory and instructional facilities, meals, tuition, interpreters, Moscow airport transfer, and access to local theatrical and other historical and tourist sites for a very affordable price.

May 30, 2008 through July 1, 2008

Student Costs**

Additionally, you are required to pay tuition for 3 credit hours at your appropriate rate, payable through the normal tuition payment process.

http://www.classschedule.wayne.edu/course_web/schedule/index.cfm

Teacher/Observer Costs**

*Housing cost for teacher-observers is paid in dollars on-site in Moscow

**Program fees may change due to unexpected increases in airline surcharges.  If this occurs, those fees will be passed on to program participants.

The non-refundable administrative fee of $400 is due within 14 days of accepting admission into the program. The remaining balance is due in five payments on the following dates:

The $300 deposit is non-refundable.

Withdrawals must be in writing.

90 days or more before start of the program-75% of program fees less $400 non-refundable deposit

60-89 days before start of the program-50% of program fees less $400 non-refundable deposit

1-59 days before start of the program All payments are non-refundable

Theatre students (or WSU theatre alumni) in good standing from WSU or from another accredited institution, audition-interview (can be in any video format for non-WSU students); admission to WSU as Regular, Post-Bachelor, or Guest student; approved registration for THR 5600; appropriate travel and health insurance arrangements. WSU graduating seniors and final-year MFAs are eligible provided they register for the summer term.

Graduate students attending other Michigan public institutions of higher education are eligible to register through the Michigan Intercollegiate Graduate Studies Program (MIGS), which permits payment of tuition and other fees at WSU for credit at the home instruction as if offered by that institution. For more information about MIGS contact the Admissions Office.

Program Application (pdf)

"A Month in Moscow" Homepage:

http://www.theatre.wayne.edu/monthinmoscow.php

Dr. James Thomas
3225.5 Old Main
313-577-7907
jthomas@wayne.edu