Acting and Performance Making 1B (DRAM10023)

Intended learning outcomes

This subject enables students to:

• work with respect for the ethics of theatrical practice;
• commence the skills of creating and sustaining an imaginary world;
• study the skills of endowment: the ability to take on a role other than oneself, the ability to endow objects, spaces and people with particular qualities;
• develop the skills of research;
• develop the skills of script analysis;
• understand an approach to working with dramatic text;
• develop the ability to take on the characteristics of another;
• integrate the work that has been explored in Body/Voice.

Generic skills

On completing this subject students will be able to:
• creatively solve problems;
• give and receive informed feedback;
• participate effectively in collaborative learning as a team member whilst respecting individual differences;
• multi-task and work in several fields of awareness simultaneously;
• work confidently in the unknown;
• develop a belief in the self;
• trust the work process in which they are involved ;
• initiate ideas and to put them into practice;
• work autonomously;
• work spontaneously with authenticity;
• create and organise aesthetic material;
• analyse written material;
• transfer conceptual thinking into practice.