English and drama

Making Performance: Experiments

Module code: Q3255
Level 4
30 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Seminar, Workshop, Lecture, Practical
Assessment modes: Coursework

On this module, you’ll develop your understanding of what contemporary performance is and how it can be made. You’ll develop a critical and curious attitude to viewing, experiencing and making performance.

The module presents the work of artists and ensembles who have expanded our horizons about what theatre can be. By working collaboratively to generate performance material, you’ll further develop the practical skills necessary for working together.

Key skills you’ll gain include:

• investigating practice
• collaboration
• developing ideas experientially.

Module learning outcomes

• Demonstrate a knowledge of the issues and contexts involved in making contemporary theatre
• Identify how performance 'thinks' when processing issues and themes
• Summarize how theory relates to practice and practice to theory
• Demonstrate practical and groupwork skills by means of performance