This course is co-taught by tutor-practitioners with extensive experience of working in professional theatre. The Theatre-Making module is the spine of the new MA in Theatre Practice course, and it is divided into two parts (Theatre-Making 1 & 2). Theatre-Making 1 is a 10-week (20 credits) module, which will focus on methodologies in practice-as-research (PaR), examining an array of performance-making techniques, disciplinary approaches and traditions from different critical vantage points – drawing on an eclectic array of case studies/practitioners as exemplars each week, the module will offer intensive practice-led 3-hour workshops to explore artistic approaches in directing, acting, devising, performance art and applied practices.
Aims
The aim of this module is to provide a solid grounding in different models and approaches to practice-as-research (PaR), while giving postgraduate students an opportunity to explore PaR methodologies through a variety of theatre-making traditions in Ethnography and Performance, Devising, Performance Art, Performer Training Methods, Directing or Applied Performance.
Theatre-making 1 enables students to creatively explore these diverse fields, while providing the creative freedom to increasingly specialise over the duration of the term in one particular area of research interest. Students will receive formative tutor/peer feedback throughout the term in response to their research proposal and the sharing of practical work-in-progress in a rigorous and energised PaR forum.
Learning Outcomes
1. To prepare students for the rigours or practice-as-research, exploring a range of research strategies, methodologies and approaches to imbricating practice in an original research enquiry.
2. To provide both practical and theoretical insights into Ethnography and Performance, Devising, Performance Art, Performer Training Methods, Directing or Applied Performance in historical and contemporary performance practices.
3. To offer students a chance to engage in experimental exercises to develop the skills necessary for anyone wishing to work as a theatre-maker or practitioner-researcher (and foundations for anyone wishing to progress their research skills to PhD level).
4. To prepare students to undertake independently led practical projects arising from an in-depth process of research and development.
Aims
The aim of this module is to provide a solid grounding in different models and approaches to practice-as-research (PaR), while giving postgraduate students an opportunity to explore PaR methodologies through a variety of theatre-making traditions in Ethnography and Performance, Devising, Performance Art, Performer Training Methods, Directing or Applied Performance.
Theatre-making 1 enables students to creatively explore these diverse fields, while providing the creative freedom to increasingly specialise over the duration of the term in one particular area of research interest. Students will receive formative tutor/peer feedback throughout the term in response to their research proposal and the sharing of practical work-in-progress in a rigorous and energised PaR forum.
Learning Outcomes
1. To prepare students for the rigours or practice-as-research, exploring a range of research strategies, methodologies and approaches to imbricating practice in an original research enquiry.
2. To provide both practical and theoretical insights into Ethnography and Performance, Devising, Performance Art, Performer Training Methods, Directing or Applied Performance in historical and contemporary performance practices.
3. To offer students a chance to engage in experimental exercises to develop the skills necessary for anyone wishing to work as a theatre-maker or practitioner-researcher (and foundations for anyone wishing to progress their research skills to PhD level).
4. To prepare students to undertake independently led practical projects arising from an in-depth process of research and development.