Launceston
Students must wear non-restrictive clothing and footwear.
Introduction
This unit explores that ways that dramatic texts ‘speak’ as documents for performance. By exploring a number of texts, both classical and contemporary, this unit considers the range of interpretive practices that move the text from page to stage. The unit will explore how theatrical texts have developed historically, and how texts speak to each other within the theatrical canon. These traditional modes of textual analysis will then inform a deeper critical engagement with the varied ways that theatrical texts are interpreted and performed through vocal delivery, physical movement, spatial design, lighting, sound, and other various dramaturgical practices. Students will learn to examine texts in performance, drawing out key themes, social and historical contexts, through developing their own interpretive performances.
Summary 2020
| Unit name | Playing Text |
|---|---|
| Unit code | FPB236 |
| Credit points | 12.5 |
| Faculty/School | College of Arts, Law and Education School of Creative Arts and Media |
| Discipline | Theatre |
| Coordinator | Dr Asher Warren |
| Teaching staff | Dr Asher Warren and other staff tbc |
| Level | Intermediate |
| Available as student elective? | Yes |
| Breadth Unit? | No |
Availability
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Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate knowledge of critical theory and industry practice related to the interpretation of texts for performance.
- Critically compare a range of texts for performance.
- Analyse the realisation of theatrical texts with reference to their social, cultural and historical contexts.
- Identify the social and ethical issues that inform and are embedded in texts for performance.
- Develop skills in the use of creative practice to inform the interpretation of texts.
Fees
Requisites
Prerequisites
25 points at introductory level in any discipline in any faculty
Co-requisites
Mutual Exclusions
You cannot enrol in this unit as well as the following:
FPB336 Playing Text.
Teaching
| Teaching Pattern | 3 hours per week for 13 weeks |
|---|---|
| Assessment | 200 level: Assessment task 1: In-class performative reading and 750 word exegesis (25%) Assessment task 2: Performance with 300 word artists statement (35%) Assessment task 3: 1,500 word critical essay (40%) 300 Level: Assessment task 1: In-class performative reading and 750 word exegesis (25%) Assessment task 2: Performance with 300 word artists statement (35%) Assessment task 3: 2,000 word critical essay (40%) |
| Timetable | View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable |
Textbooks
| Required | To be advised by Unit Coordinator |
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| Recommended |
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