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Faculty of Arts
Drama
Module Catalogue
Semester 1 - 2015/2016
Module Code: DPA1001DR
Module Name: Making
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
30
2
Level 4
Yvon Bonenfant
Module Description:
This module takes students on a year-long journey that introduces them to the process of
making Performance in the current artistic environment. Building on understandings of
performance creation and composition developed at pre-University level, students will be
guided, largely through practical workshops accompanied by appropriate critical and
practitioner readings, through exercises and formative tasks in inventing new work that take
them into the realm of the unknown and that help them expand their capacity to create
unique and original creative material for their academic age and experience. This module is
a university-level primer in creative and compositional technique for the ensemble group
and will engage students in a range of strategies for making work, and will require extensive
in-class showings and critical feedback sessions in preparation for the assessment.
Specific to:
Assessments:
001:
Group performance (15 minutes)
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
Semester
S1
100%
Day
Time
Module Code: DR1112
Module Name: Politics of Performance
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Level:
Module Tutor:
30
2
Level 4
Marilena Zaroulia
Module Description:
This year-long double module complements the work undertaken on the module Theatre
and Performance by further exploring the politics of performance in wider social and
cultural contexts. The module will present various approaches to the notion of performance
outside a theatre venue, for example in communities, rituals, games, global spectacles and
practices of everyday life. We will explore case studies from Western and non-Western
contexts, discussing performance practices and challenges in experiences of spectatorship.
The development of theatre and its relationship to political contexts and agendas will be
particularly examined alongside the work of key practitioners who have sought to create
theatre in non-theatre spaces. The idea of politics will be further interrogated by
investigating the ways in which place and culture impact on the making and reception of a
performance
Specific to:
Drama Studies
Assessments:
001:
002:
Essay
Workshop/presentation
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
Semester
S1
50%
50%
Day
Time
Module Code: DR1900
Module Name: Theatre Histories
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No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
30
2
Level 4
Helen Grime
Module Description:
This year-long module invites students to consider the contexts in which theatre is made
today and has been made in the past. A number of texts will be explored in different
contexts exploring different historical moments. The issue of the ephemerality of
performance will be considered as textual and contextual materials and evidence are
analysed. The key focus will be uncovering and understanding the complexity of the
relationship between texts and contexts. The module will introduce debates in theatre
historiography and offer methodologies for investigating theatre and its histories. A range of
texts from different moments in theatre history and will be explored with the emphasis on
performance in Britain. This module will encompass a breadth of theatre history whilst
allowing for detailed case study work. There are two assessment points connected to this
module:
• an essay building from seminar presentation work;
• a practical performance
Specific to:
Assessments:
001:
002:
Essay
Performance
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
50%
50%
Semester
S1
Day
Time
Module Code: DR1901
Module Name: Critical Viewing
Module Credits: 30
No. of Periods: 2
Level:
Level 4
Module Tutor:
Module Description:
This module offers a study of drama and performance from different media and different
traditions of theatre, performance and film-making work. Students will develop a critical
vocabulary which will enable them to offer informed interpretations of both live
performances and recorded media, primarily film and TV. Through acquisition of analytical
skills and an introduction to aspects of relevant critical theory, students will recognise the
way in which philosophy, history and ideology have influenced the development of
theatrical and certain cinematic forms and conventions and develop an awareness of the
way in which fluidity of context can influence text and subtext.
Specific to:
Assessments:
001:
002:
Essay (performance element)
Timed paper (screen element)
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
Semester
S1
60%
40%
Day
Time
Module Code: DR2121
Module Name: Theatre and Identities
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
30
2
Level 5
Marilena Zaroulia
Module Description:
This year-long, double module will examine the ways in which drama and performance have
responded to and engaged with various theoretical debates around the notion of identity.
The module builds on outcomes achieved and skills developed in year 1, in Politics of
Performance, Histories and Contexts and Contemporary Theatre. It will examine a range of
approaches to identity: psychoanalysis, gender theory, feminism, linguistics, structuralism
and poststructuralism, materialism and ideology, postmodernism, cultural theories. Identity
will emerge as a complex concept that can be read through different lenses (race, class,
gender, culture, nation, sexuality, unconscious). While posing the question whether
identities (both individual and collective) are innate or determined by other factors and thus
is constantly performed, we will examine examples from drama and theatre, from the UK
and elsewhere, to explore its role in people’s attempt to understand who they are. The
critical concepts will be explored with close reference to plays from different historical
moments and their engagement with notions of identity/identities.
Specific to:
Assessments:
001:
002:
003:
Availability:
Occ.
A
Drama Studies Joint
Drama Studies
Theatre Production (Stage and Arts Management)
Research essay
Proposal for research project
Group performance
presentation/extended essay
(subject to programme amendment)
Year
15/16
Semester
S1
50%
%
50%
Day
Time
Module Code: DR2122
Module Name: The Role of the Actor
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No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
30
2
Level 5
Sian Radinger
Module Description:
This double module will introduce students to a range of solo and ensemble theatre
practices, through vocal and physical explorations of action and composition, with the aim
of exploring questions around the agency of the actor, and related ethical issues, in different
twentieth and twenty-first century theatre contexts. Sessions will consist of a combination
of workshops, seminars and occasional viewings of performance work. Students will be
expected to engage with a range of set readings which offer context and critical analysis of
the practices with which they will be engaging across various forms of actor training that will
be undertaken in the workshops on the module. The workshops will take the form of
different voice and body training practices, usually aligned with the work of particular
practitioners and will explore what is the practical research of the actor.
Specific to:
Drama Studies Joint
Drama Studies
Theatre Production (Stage and Arts Management)
Assessments:
003:
Gateway/diagnostic performance
(solo or group)
Project proposal or short critical
reflection or research forum
Performance (group)
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
001:
002:
Semester
S1
0%
30%
70%
Day
Time
Module Code: DR2123
Module Name: Production Project
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
30
1
Level 5
Marianne Sharp
Module Description:
This module is designed to enable students to collaborate on a staff-led practical research
project leading to a theatre production. Students will collaborate primarily as performers
(though other roles may be negotiated within a given project) and will be introduced to
contemporary practice-as-research issues through experiencing a practice-as-research
process. Sessions on this module will be primarily in the form of workshops and rehearsals
and students will engage with both critical enquiry and forms of performer training which
can enable the realisation of a given research enquiry through performance/staging.
Specific to:
Drama Studies
Assessments:
001:
002:
Process and performance
Research forum
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
Semester
S1
70%
30%
Day
Time
Module Code: DR2125
Module Name: Popular Performance
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
30
1
Level 5
Stephen Hall
Module Description:
This module seeks to alert students to the broad range of work that can be termed popular
performance. The focus will be predominantly on the theatrical traditions, which might
include Circus and Clowning, Music Hall/Variety, Pantomime, Sketch-based or Stand-up
Comedy, Musical Theatre, Puppetry, but it may also examine Street Theatre. It may also
include reference to the development of these traditions in the media. It attempts to
provide a history and context for the study of these theatre styles, and to discover recurring
themes and approaches in the construction of audience performer relationships. Students
will study a small number of practices through discussion and practical experimentation.
Specific to:
Drama Studies Joint
Drama Studies
Assessments:
001:
002:
Availability:
Occ.
A
Performance (subject to programme
amendment)
Critical evaluation (subject to
programme amendment)
Year
15/16
Semester
S1
50%
50%
Day
Time
Module Code: DR2124
Module Name: Drama / Theatre in Education and Children's Theatre
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
30
1
Level 5
Annie Mckean
Module Description:
This double module will focus on the kind of learning that accrues to working within the arts
with young people. The module will commence with an over-view of the history of DIE,
Children’s Theatre and TIE. A history of child centred learning and its relationship to the
pedagogy of Paulo Freire will be core to this module. The links between dramatic play and
learning will be linked to early child development (Piaget, Bruner and Vygotsky) and the
ways in which work in drama as a teaching and learning medium utilises learning styles and
can be related to key theories such as Multiple Intelligence Theory, Language Development
and Emotional Literacy in young people. The correlation between drama methodology and
how young people learn will be examined in DIE and TIE contexts. The ways in which these
forms can be used as a springboard for cross-curricular learning will be central to delivery of
workshops by students on the module.
Specific to:
Drama Studies Joint
Drama Studies
Assessments:
001:
002:
Essay
Group workshop presentation
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
Semester
S1
40%
60%
Day
Time
Module Code: DR3115
Module Name: Theatre Stories
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
15
1
Level 6
Helen Grime
Module Description:
Does Steven Berkoff really tell researchers to fuck off? Was Odon von Horvath killed by
lightning whilst walking down the Champs Elysee? Did Joan Littlewood really nearly starve
to death as she walked to RADA? Did half the cast die in the 1942 blackout Macbeth? Buzz
Goodbody, Aphra Behn, Nell Gwyn, Cecily Hamilton, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies– who was she?
This module invites students to consider debates in theatre historiography. Paying attention
to absences and anecdote, students will be introduced to some of the issues in the ongoing
process of writing, reading and constructing theatre and performance history. Case study
examples will be explored in lecture/seminar sessions. The module will begin with staff led
sessions exploring some key historiographical concepts and offer case study examples,
focussing on an event, an anecdote, a personality or absence from theatre history. Students
will be encouraged to identify their own case study to research and develop for
presentation in class.
Specific to:
Drama Studies Joint
Drama Studies
Assessments:
001:
Research presentation or portfolio
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
Semester
S1
100%
Day
Time
Module Code: DR3116
Module Name: Women, Theatre and Autobiography
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
15
1
Level 6
Marianne Sharp
Module Description:
This single level six module gives students the opportunity to experience a range of writer
and practitioner approaches to construction of selves in both text and performance terms.
The work on this module will be framed by a range of feminist theories and ways of working
which find a level of common ground in approaches to the importance of personal
narratives (stories) as tools for empowerment in relation to social, political and cultural
visibility. Students will be exposed to a range of women’s writing for performance and
performance practitioners whose work reflects and develops notions and uses of
autobiography in performance.
Specific to:
Drama Studies Joint
Drama Studies
Assessments:
001:
Availability:
Occ.
A
Performance and accompanying
research materials (subject to
programme amendment)
Year
15/16
Semester
S1
100%
Day
Time
Module Code: DR3118
Module Name: Post-War British Theatre
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
15
1
Level 6
Marilena Zaroulia
Module Description:
This module explores developments in post-war British theatre, building on the critical skills
that students have developed throughout the degree (Theatre and Identities, Histories and
Contexts). The module sets out to advance the students’ knowledge and understanding of
the key movements and practitioners in British theatre since 1956 and enhance their skills
of application of contextual and theoretical modes of inquiry in relation to British
playwriting and theatre-making. By means of a variety of case studies from the past seven
decades, the module will provide students with an in-depth knowledge and critical
familiarity with the work of a range of British playwrights as well as an advanced
understanding of aspects of British society, politics, culture as the operating contexts of
theatre in this period. The assessment at the end of the module is either a written essay on
a set topic or a topic devised by the students in consultation with the tutor, or an in-class
group performance/presentation. Prior to this assessment point, students will have to
undergo a diagnostic (pass/fail) exercise, of preparing their essay proposal (in the form of a
plan) or pitching their ideas of a presentation.
Specific to:
Assessments:
001:
002:
Availability:
Occ.
A
Essay proposal or presentation pitch
3000 word essay or group
presentation
Year
15/16
Semester
S1
%
100%
Day
Time
Module Code: DR3999
Module Name: Volunteering (for Drama)
Module Credits:
No. of Periods:
Level:
Module Tutor:
15
1
Level 6
Stephen Hall
Module Description:
This module allows students to take up a placement in a voluntary sector body either in the
UK or overseas. The aim is that you will make a positive and personally rewarding
contribution to the community whilst also reflecting critically upon your experience and
developing skills which will enhance your employability and personal development. A
Combined Honours student may only take ONE instance of this module.
Specific to:
Drama Studies Joint
Drama Studies
Assessments:
001:
002:
Prospectus
Portfolio
Availability:
Occ.
A
Year
15/16
25%
75%
Semester
S1
Day
Time