Learning Outcomes:
- Understand how material for performance can be generated in collaborative group settings
- Analyse and apply select creative processes of select leading theatremakers
- Understand the role of the body, space, and text in performance making and staging
- Develop skills to create, stage, and present a group collaborative presentation /performance
- Apply and test techniques of theatre making examined on the course
- Demonstrate reflective and evaluate assessment of original material generated
Indicative Module Content:
Weeks:
1. Introduction
2. You and the Story: Biography as source material for text and performance
3. The Words. The Body.: Generating concepts through text and movement
4. Devise and Edit: Creating a Story to Distill
5. In Search of a Notion: Selection and Election of an Idea
6. Unpacking the Road Map: Looking at Methodology to Create
7. Excavate and Dig: Being Robust in Decision-making
8. Continue and Dig: Questioning Form, Style, and Content
9. Rehearsing Performance Assignments: Assignment Presentation 1
10. Feedback and Rehearsing Assignment
11. Final Presentation: In-class Assessment
12. Course Review and Feedback