TH1916:03
Practical Theatre Studies 1A
Townsville
Inadmissable Subject Combination: TH1911 TH1925
15 hours workshops. Students are expected to undertake 15 hours independent group projects. First semester.
Practical studies of plays and the subsequent realisation of the performance text are the content areas. Throughout the subject, theory is combined with practice in a physical exploration of the performance properties of texts. Analysis of selected texts will be developed in workshop and seminar sessions.
Learning Objectives:
- to demonstrate an understanding of selected playwrights within an historical/contemporary context;
- to apply skills in the analysis and interpretation of selected texts as blueprints for performance;
- to translate intellectual discovery into stage action by exploring physical ways of dealing with text.
Assessment by seminar participation (20%); seminar projects (40%); essay (40%).