Theatre Making
Overview
- Credit value: 30 credits at Level 4
- Convenor: Dr Molly Flynn
- Assessment: coursework of 1000 words (50%) and a group performance presentation (50%)
Module description
This skills-based module builds an essential foundation for your practice and thinking as a student of theatre and performance. The module is made up of a series of hands-on workshops in which you will encounter a range of practices and techniques that are essential to an understanding of theatre and its place within a broader study of history and culture. You will work both conceptually and practically to understand forms as diverse as digital theatre making, improvisation, theatre for social change, site-specific and immersive theatre. Throughout the module you will maintain a practice journal in which you critically reflect on the workshops and the ideas you encounter. The practice-based workshops of the module will be supplemented by a range of critical texts for your independent reading and research.
Indicative syllabus
- Digital dramaturgies
- Documentary theatre
- Site-specific theatre
- Improvisation
- Script analysis
- Scenography and space
- Devised theatre making
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- demonstrate knowledge of a range of international theatre practices
- engage in consideration of theatre making as a form of research
- demonstrate skills in theatre making across styles including documentary theatre, physical theatre and digital theatre making
- work independently and in the context of a group to create an original piece of performance research.