MODULES
Year 1
CORE MODULES
Director and the Text
This module will introduce you to a range of skills required in order to direct a piece of theatre in line with professional standards and rehearsal techniques.
The module aims to enable you:
- To understand how a scene functions and the director’s role in realising the scene into performance
- To work collaboratively with a sense of company complicité
- To encourage the interpretation of texts, ideas, and emotions through voice and body
- To create and sustain an improvised rehearsal or performance
- To understand the role of the director in the dramaturgical process
- To understand the relationship between the director and other creative professionals in the performance process
- To understand mise-en-scene
- To read a lighting plan
- To facilitate the use of the body in a free, safe and flexible manner
- To facilitate an awareness of space
- To understand the necessity of a warm up
Devised Project
This module is designed to introduce you to the practical and theoretical skills necessary in order to collaboratively devise a piece of theatre. By producing a cross-institution performance project, you will gain a practical understanding of key aspects of working as an ensemble while professionally interacting with an externally produced project / research brief. You will engage with current theory and contemporary performance practices emerging out of cultural sites and/or archival material and the ethical implications of producing performance in these domains.
The project has a double focus:
- in devising as a means of making theatre and making meaning.
- in producing situated performance projects in collaboration with cultural institutions.
The mains aims are:
- To develop a range of skills required to devise theatre collaboratively
- To develop an understanding of how devised performance and research are interdependent
- To devise site responsive performance in collaboration with external partners.
Contemporary Performance Making
This module will introduce you to the field of contemporary performance practices and methodologies. Throughout the term, you will explore a range theoretical and practical skills required to conceive, devise and produce a collaborative performance. Indicative topics of study include: interdisciplinary composition; participatory and immersive practices; site specific/responsive performance; and digital performance.
Research Methods in Creative Practice
- To critically assess the application of social, historical, cultural and textual research methods to creative cultural products.
- To facilitate the development of the practical skills necessary for the implementation of a research style for creative cultural projects and related written material.
- To integrate theory with production
- To further develop individual production skills
- To develop research, planning and organisational skills
Performance Platform
The aims of the module are to:
- Provide you with the opportunity to pursue self-initiated work, which demonstrates a critical understanding of the approaches, practices and knowledge acquired earlier in the course.
- Develop an advanced understanding of research methodology and project management for production-based work.
- Provide you with the opportunity to develop production work to a high creative and technical standard.
- Produce a written component that is based on critical reflection.
Mental Wealth: Professional Life - Performance Praxis
This module will provide you with the opportunity to develop an innovative practice as research performance methodology that can lead to the production work of a high creative and technical standard. They will pursue self-initiated work, which demonstrates a critical understanding of the approaches, practices and knowledge acquired earlier in the course and applied to their project and develop an advanced understanding of research methodology and project management for production-based work. This module is provided for you to develop an innovative practice as research performance methodology and pursue self-initiated research based on an area of your choice leading to an outward facing production. You will demonstrate an understanding of theoretical perspectives pertinent to performance practice, to contain a coherent implementation of research methodology and pre-production planning and show evidence of original research.
