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Collaborative Dramaturgies Project 1 (DRAM90012)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
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Overview
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This subject examines collaborative dramaturgies through the rehearsal and collective authorship of a devised performance project. The subject draws on critical and theoretical understanding of dramaturgy to apply it as a tool in devising live performance. Students will translate a given stimulus into a studio-scale work-in-progress performance through research, design, documentation and practical investigation. Reflection on practice is used to develop a dramaturgical analysis of collaborative working processes in a written assessment.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject students will be able to:
- devise and perform collaboratively authored material;
- verbally articulate an approach to collaborative dramaturgy in rehearsal room practice and processes;
- make appropriate dramaturgical decisions and implement changes within a creative process based on group discussions and feedback from staff;
- produce the relevant documents and materials required by a collaborative devising project in a production process;
- critically analyse the key characteristics of individual effectiveness in collaborative devising and comport them in practice appropriate to the working context;
- evaluate the effectiveness of a collaborative dramaturgy and assess the impact of individual behaviour on group dynamics.
Generic skills
- Create and organise aesthetic material
- Use a range of research tools and methodologies
- Solve problems
- Interpret and analyse
- Develop the capacity for critical thinking
- Work collaboratively showing initiative and openness
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Devising and Rehearsal Practice - Creative process development for group performance (1000 words equivalent)
| From Week 7 to Week 9 | 20% |
20-minute group performance (2000 words equivalent)
| From Week 10 to Week 12 | 40% |
Written Task: Performance Writing with either dialogue, physical direction and/or scenography (2000 words)
| During the assessment period | 40% |
Hurdle requirement: Attendance hurdle 80% | Throughout the semester | N/A |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Coordinator Sapidah Kian Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 48 hours comprising of one 3 hour class per week and 8 hours rehearsal room tutorial. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 3 August 2020 to 1 November 2020 Last self-enrol date 14 August 2020 Census date 21 September 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 16 October 2020 Assessment period ends 27 November 2020
Time commitment details
170 hours
Additional delivery details
This subject is delivered either partially or fully in-person in Second Half Year 2020. Please ensure you are able to attend any essential in-person requirements or speak to Stop 1 about alternative subject options.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Cathy Turner and Synne Behrndt, Dramaturgy and Performance, (Hampshire & NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Bogart, Anne & Tina Landau, The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition, (NY: Theatre Communications Group, 2005).
Performance Research: On Dramaturgy 14:3 (2009). Eds. Karoline Gritzner, Patrick Primavesi and Heike Roms.
Contemporary Theatre Review. 20:2 (2010) Special issue on ‘new dramaturgies’, eds. Turner and Behrndt.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Theatre (Directing) Course Master of Theatre (Dramaturgy) Course Master of Theatre (Writing) Course Master of Dramaturgy Course Master of Directing for Performance
Last updated: 3 November 2022