TH2945:03
Practical Theatre Studies 2B
Townsville
Inadmissable Subject Combination: TH2931 TH2941
15 hours workshops. Students are expected to undertake 15 hours independent group projects. Second 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 weekly tasks (20%); two seminar projects (20% each) (40%); essay (2,000 words) (40%).