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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
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Contact information
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
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- 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: 31 January 2024
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: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Devising and Rehearsal Practice - Creative process development for group performance
| Second half of the teaching period | 20% |
20-minute group performance
| End of the teaching period | 40% |
Written Task: Performance Writing with either dialogue, physical direction and/or scenography
| During the assessment period | 40% |
Hurdle requirement: Students must attend a minimum of 80% of all scheduled classes. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Coordinator Robert Walton Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 48 hours, comprising one 3-hour class per week and 8-hours rehearsal room tutorial. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 25 July 2022 to 23 October 2022 Last self-enrol date 5 August 2022 Census date 31 August 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 23 September 2022 Assessment period ends 18 November 2022
Last updated: 31 January 2024
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 (Dramaturgy) Course Master of Theatre (Writing) Course Master of Theatre (Directing)
Last updated: 31 January 2024