Component

MA Public Opinion and Political Behaviour
MFA Acting with Digital Media options

Year 1, Component 04

EA604-7-SP or (EA406-7-FY and EA407-7-FY)
EA406-7-FY
Music and Singing
(15 CREDITS)

The aim of this module is to develop your ability to memorise and sing in parts, while also using the singing voice with a degree of technical assurance. By the third term the students are regarded as actors who can communicate through song, and are ready to prepare for audition.

EA407-7-FY
Contextual Studies
(15 CREDITS)

You are introduced to theories of character creation in contemporary theatre practice within a historical context in this module. This work reinforces the importance of research and to establish effective research techniques at postgraduate level.

EA604-7-SP
Contemporary Texts
(30 CREDITS)

This MA/MFA Acting (International) module introduces students to the study of, and practical response to, key 20th-century and contemporary texts, including 'classic' texts such as those by Beckett, Pinter, Brecht and Rodrigues, and selected contemporary practitioners from around the world. The development of improvisational and devising skills and techniques as a springboard to create a response to a text, or to further develop ideas and themes into performance, are explored. Study may include vocal work in Received Pronunciation and may include handling of regional speech and dialect as appropriate to specific texts. Study of texts will include research on their cultural context, the writer's life and works, themes of the plays and the critical reception of the plays in production.

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