The 12 students in Theatre Professor Lynn Kremer’s Voice in Acting class are all shoeless, having a pillow fight.
Standing in a circle, they’re tossing a pillow from one student to another, shouting a sentence with each throw.
“They throw the pillow to someone and say their high-intensity line,” Kremer says to me as an aside. “It gets them to physicalize and release energy, so they don’t get too tight.”
The lines are from pieces of text that they will perform for the class in a workshop setting throughout the semester, in addition to two songs. A group of three stages a scene from the Tony Award-winning play “August: Osage County” with Kremer giving them cues and reminders as they go.