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Dramaturgy, Text and Performance (DRAM90019)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
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About this subject
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Overview
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This subject focuses on high level close reading and analysis of existing plays and scenarios drawn from a range of pre-dramatic, dramatic, postdramatic and other performance contexts, including Greek, Shakespearean, nineteenth and twentieth century realist and anti-realist movements, non-narrative forms, and contemporary developments such as the postdramatic.
Drawing on international and Australian examples, the subject will focus on such aspects as dramatic structure, story, plot, dialogue, monologue, character, conflict, dramatic action, facts and imagination, language and subtext, space and time.
Theories of dramaturgy from Aristotle through Lessing to Brecht, Lehmann and the ‘new dramaturgies’ of the postdramatic, as well as other forms of ‘script’ (e.g. choreographic, film script and treatment, digital media, live art, ritual) will be examined.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- demonstrate an ability to interpret and analyse writing for performance in the context of professional practice, and within both a broader cultural field and a body of contemporary and classical ideas;
- demonstrate the capacity to analyse diverse texts for performance from a range of historical periods including the present;
- demonstrate an advanced understanding of the building blocks of dramatic and other forms of writing for performance;
- demonstrate an understanding and ability to articulate dramaturgical theory and practice in relation to writing for performance and in relation to theatre and performance more generally;
- demonstrate skills in the gathering and organisation of research materials;
- effectively document the creative process.
Generic skills
On completing this subject students will be able to:
- demonstrate the capacity to evaluate and synthesise data and other information;
- demonstrate an ability to access data and other information from a range of sources;
- demonstrate an advanced ability to discourse on artistic practice in the context of wider aesthetic, social and historical domains;
- demonstrate an ability to apply relevant research processes to specific cultural practice;
- demonstrate the ability to communicate in oral and written form;
- demonstrate a capacity for critical thinking.
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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Short written exercise
| Early in the teaching period | 20% |
Essay
| Mid teaching period | 50% |
Essay
| During the assessment period | 30% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Coordinator Raimondo Cortese Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 36 hours, comprising one 3-hour practical class each week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 28 February 2022 to 29 May 2022 Last self-enrol date 11 March 2022 Census date 31 March 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 6 May 2022 Assessment period ends 24 June 2022
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- 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