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School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
This course focuses on embodying the dramatic text. In workshops, students will use practice-as-research methods to explore how elements of staging—space, movement, voice, and relationship with audience—make meaning in drama. This will culminate in a performance show-case. In seminars students will present case studies of one of the following: play-writing, direction and rehearsal process, acting, elements of stage design, or reviewing, to deepen their understanding of the influence context on theatrical meaning. The course will develop skills for theatre and performance research as well as textual analysis, creative collaboration, rehearsal and performance.The structure of assessment will include a seminar paper, a group-work performance task and a workshop journal essay. The choice/genre of plays studied will vary according to staff expertise.
small-group performance task (5-10 minutes)
Learning outcomes 1, 2
seminar paper (1000 words/10 minutes)
Learning outcomes 4, 5
workshop reflection essay (3000 words)
Learning outcomes 1, 3
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 24 hours of workshops (2hrs/week) b) 12 hours of seminars (1hr/week) c) 94 hours of independent study
This will vary according to the play(s) being studied. Readings will include both the plays and critical materials related to their staging and the study of their contexts. Preliminary Reading William Shakespeare, Othello (New Cambridge Shakespeare, 2018).