EA397-6-SP-SO:
Final Performance Project
2023/24
East 15 Acting School
Southend Campus
Spring
Undergraduate: Level 6
Current
Monday 15 January 2024
Friday 22 March 2024
30
31 March 2021
Requisites for this module
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BA W494 Acting and Physical Theatre
For this final performance project in the BA Physical Theatre, third year students will usually prepare solo, dual or triplicate performances for public performance. They are encouraged to apply imaginative interpretations of text, music or the visual arts in the projects. They must also develop the ability to work independently of a director or tutor with a high degree of confidence and creativity.
While the final performance will be in solo or small groups, students will also be judged on their alertness to a company production. They must demonstrate the generosity and creative energy necessary to sustain fellow actors in their performances as well as their own.
Students will write a Logbook of the rehearsal and performance process and submit this at the end of the module.
The aims of the module are:
To develop students' ability to devise individual or duet performances using the full range of physical theatre techniques.
To develop students' ability to create solo or duet performance work for public audiences.
On completion of this module the student should be able to:
Create an original concept for solo or small group physical theatre performance
Demonstrate relevant research into solo or small group performance processes
Demonstrate a range of performance skills
Work as a professional member of a collaborative company
Guidelines for Preparation of Supporting Research and Rehearsal Logbook
The logbook is to be kept throughout the development, rehearsal and performance period.
Format: Solidly bound with unlined paper
Minimum size A4
Pages numbered.
The Logbook has several functions:
- Documentation of personal process in the development of your performance or technical roles
- Record of impressions, thought, arguments on a daily basis
- Coherent and critical analysis of creative input in the production
- Content of research and responses to reading.
The Logbook is not for straight lecture notes. Analytical responses to ideas raised in class are encouraged, but not a word for word transcription of what was said.
The Logbook should be kept separate from your script – though your script may be submitted to illustrate your process.
Your Logbook is a creative and intellectual response to all aspects of your production. Use of illustration and colour is strongly encouraged. Be constructive in your criticism and view each experience as learning in the development of your theatre aesthetic.
Your Logbook will be assessed and marked on how well you cover each of the following categories:
- Thorough and on-going record of your working process as an actor and/or technician. Note any discoveries or advances in your understanding as they occur (for example, breakthroughs in use of voice or body or technical knowledge).
- Analysis of your working process, i.e. an assessment of your development and achievements. What would you have done better or differently?
- Analysis of the work’s thematic concerns and how these are expressed in the production. This will include relevant reading and theoretical viewpoints.
- Research into the world of the play, i.e. background to the events in the play – social/ historical/ political/ performative.
- Creative use of visual material which has inspired you.
- A clear conclusion which sums up the major strands of your thinking throughout the workbook.
Tutorial workshops and guidance, independent and group rehearsal, seminar discussions.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Logbook |
|
20% |
| Practical |
Performance |
|
80% |
Additional coursework information
Assessment is by:
A public performance
Supporting research and rehearsal logbook
Guidelines for the Preparation of Supporting Research and Rehearsal Logbook
The Logbook is to be kept throughout the development, rehearsal and performance period.
Format:
Solidly bound with unlined paper
Minimum size A4
Pages numbered
The Logbook has several functions:
Documentation of personal process in the development of your performance or technical roles
Record of impressions, thought, arguments on a daily basis
Coherent and critical analysis of creative input in the production
Content of research and responses to reading
The Logbook is not for straight lecture notes. Analytical responses to ideas raised in class are encouraged but not a word for word transcription of was said.
The Logbook should be kept separate from your script - though your script may be submitted to illustrate your process.
Your Logbook is a creative and intellectual response to all aspects of your production. Use of illustration and colour is strongly encouraged. Be constructive in your criticism and view each experience as learning in the development of your theatre aesthetic.
Your Logbook will be assessed and marked on how well you cover each of the following categories:
A thorough and on-going record of your working process as an actor and/or technician.
Note any discoveries or advances in your understanding as it occurs (i.e breakthroughs in use of voice, body or technical knowledge).
Analysis of your working process, i.e. an assessment of your development and achievements. What would you have done better or differently?
Analysis of the work's thematic concerns and how these are expressed in the production. This will include relevant reading and theoretical viewpoints.
Research into the world of play, i.e background to the events in the play - social/ historical/ political/ performative.
Creative use of the visual material which has inspired you.
A clear conclusion which sums up the major strands of your thinking throughout the book.
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Mr Simon Hunt, email: huntsj@essex.ac.uk.
For further information please contact huntsj@essex.ac.uk
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No external examiner information available for this module.
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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