EA721-7-AU-LO:
Performance Theory and Practice
2023/24
East 15 Acting School
East15 (Loughton) Campus
Autumn
Postgraduate: Level 7
Current
Thursday 05 October 2023
Friday 15 December 2023
30
31 March 2021
Requisites for this module
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MA W40E12 Advanced Professional Theatre Practice
This core module consolidates students' knowledge of relevant theories and practitioners.It engages with a series of theoretical frameworks, such as cultural politics or semiotics, which students apply into performance practice.
This module enables students to identify and respond critically to a range of theories relevant to contemporary performance practice, and to develop an individual appreciation of how such theories can enhance and enrich their own practice. Students also locate their own professional work in the context of contemporary and recent practitioners in a variety of theatrical forms.
On completion of this module, successful students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate a knowledgeof a range of theoretical approaches to the creation and interpretation of performance.
2. Critically discuss the application of at least two theories to the work of professional practitioners.
3. Articulate opportunities for, and possible outcomes of, applying at least one theory to their own professional practice
This can depend on the students' previous experience, but could include:
* Avant-Garde Theatre
* Spectatorship
* Postmodern shift
* Semiotics
* Cultural politics
* Feminism
* Construction of the self / Autobiography
* Repetition
* Authorship
* Activisms
* Liveness and Disappearance
* Intimacy
Online learning sessions including guided reading and viewing; virtual tutorialswith an assigned tutor at least once a term; participation in student forum (moderated and guided by tutors).
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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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
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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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