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Director, Actor and Text (DRAM90021)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On 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
Availability | Semester 2 |
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Director, Actor and Text builds on the knowledge and techniques specific to the discipline of directing for theatre introduced in Directing Methodologies and Dramaturgy, Text and Performance and Collaboration in Action, with a particular focus on the direction of actors with text.
Through seminars, individual supervision and rehearsals, the subject explores the role of the director as part of a creative team, defining the skills, qualities and processes that are essential to the practising professional director.
The subject comprises three distinct, but inter-related, modules: an intensive focused on approaches to text analysis and interpretation with actors; a workshop series in which text is explored on the floor in a scene study context; and a program of engagement with new writing in development. Underpinning these modules is a series of seminars conducted throughout the semester.
The subject will examine text through a variety of lenses, each elucidating a particular aspect of directorial practice.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- articulate an individual directing philosophy that has at its base the qualities of creative curiosity and experimentation;
- engage rigorously with dramatic texts, through private analysis and collaborative processes with writers, dramaturgs and actors;
- direct with confidence a text-based theatre scene and a rehearsed reading of a piece of new writing in development, applying methods of background research, dramaturgical analysis and direction of actors;
- work ethically within a rehearsal room context;
- work productively and respectfully with writers and actors in new play development;
- engage in rigorous self-critique and self-reflection, confidently evaluating their own and others' creative processes and outcomes.
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;
- lead others in the skills of problem solving;
- interpret and analyse;
- develop the capacity for critical thinking;
- work as a leader 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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10-minute Scene Study Presentation and accompanying Process Journal (3000 words equivalent)
| Mid teaching period | 40% |
Practical Process Task
| Second half of the teaching period | 20% |
Rehearsed Reading Presentation (2000 words equivalent) and accompanying Process Journal (2000 words equivalent)
| End of the teaching period | 40% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Coordinator Kat Henry Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 70 hours, comprising sixteen 3-hour seminars, six 1-hour individual supervisor meetings, and four 4-hour rehearsals Total time commitment 320 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
Barba, E. (2010) On Directing and Dramaturgy: Burning the house. Abingdon: Routledge.
Barba, E. (2000) ‘The Deep Order called Turbulence: The Three Faces of Dramaturgy,’ in The Drama Review, 44 (4), pp. 56- 66.
Bogart, A. (2001) A Director Prepares. London and New York: Routledge.
Brook, P. 1968, (1990). The Empty Space. Harmondsworth: Penguin. (Original work published 1968).
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Theatre (Directing)
Last updated: 31 January 2024