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This module aims to consolidate primary acting skills in a performance project, working with an industry professional (writer, director or company). Students will work to achieve a staged presentation, employing acting skills and integrating movement and voice approaches as part of a developing skillset. They are expected to recognise, and analyse, their development and engagement with integrated skills.

Outline Syllabus:The module presents you with the opportunity to apply integrated acting skills, including voice and movement, in a performance project. You will work with an industry professional. A writer, director or company will coordinate your examination of historical performance material to enliven an original interpretation. You will be required to make informed choices about your interpretation, relying on research and the application of learned skills. You will perform your work to an invited audience. You are required to reflect on the method you adopted in preparation for the performance of your project, identifying how you recreated work in rehearsal, worked with acting, movement and voice practitioner techniques when collaborating with an industry professional. You will investigate the work’s historical, cultural and international resonances, and articulate contradictions between theory and your practice in the rehearsal room, and in performance, utilising appropriate acting vocabularies and analysing the interdisciplinary nature of acting.