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Acting and Performance Making 1B (DRAM10023)

Undergraduate level 1Points: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)

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The focus of this subject is on language, space and action and the process of bringing dramatic text to performance. Particular attention is given to the ways in which meaning is created verbally, physically and spatially and how this informs contemporary theatre practice. Actors will work through the layers of “Researching the World’, understanding the “Dramatic Action”, “Internalizing the Text”, “Externalising the Text” and “Finding and Shaping the Form” in the context of performance.

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.

Last updated: 3 November 2022