Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Practical
Workshop
Module Offerings
4604ATCD-SEP-PAR
Aims
This module aims to give students a foundation of creative and performance skills to support their development as a theatre practitioner within the broad spectrum of applied theatre and community drama.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Identify and apply techniques to improve expressivity of the body in space and time as a performer and/or facilitator.
2.
Employ acting skills to effectively communicate to a specific audience.
3.
Demonstrate the ability to work creatively and efficiently as part of a production team.
4.
Identify key technical and architectural features of performance spaces and demonstrate an understanding of basic stagecraft.
5.
Recognise areas for improvement in creativity and performance and develop plans to remedy these.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
Unit 1: Movement
In this unit students develop and create links between two main areas:
a) Movement techniques and styles that are relevant to a range of Applied Theatre contexts.
b) Physical theatre oriented and other movement methodologies that support and complement students' acting skills.
Unit 2: Improvisation
In the first part of the module students will explore improvisation and spontaneity in a practical group context. Simple exercises focusing on the elimination of internal censorship and freeing of creative thought provide a foundation from which more advance work on status and short form improvisation is developed. Students will also engage in a series of stagecraft lectures covering key staging styles, theatre architecture and basic stage technology.
Unit 3: Character and Mask
This unit comprises of a series of workshops exploring the use of character and mask in performance. Styles explored may include:
Unit 4: Theatre for Young People Performance Project
This unit focuses on the development and presentation of a performance for young people. The text used will either be a play written specifically for a young audience or an adaptation of an existing text for this purpose. This final aspect of the module draws together the skills, knowledge and experience developed elsewhere in the programme and provides students with the opportunity to put theory into practice.
Throughout the module, students will be required to keep a production casebook/logbook in which they reflect on the process and their understanding of the development of the production.
Unit 1: Movement
In this unit students develop and create links between two main areas:
a) Movement techniques and styles that are relevant to a range of Applied Theatre contexts.
b) Physical theatre oriented and other movement methodologies that support and complement students' acting skills.
Unit 2: Improvisation
In the first part of the module students will explore improvisation and spontaneity in a practical group context. Simple exercises focusing on the elimination of internal censorship and freeing of creative thought provide a foundation from which more advance work on status and short form improvisation is developed. Students will also engage in a series of stagecraft lectures covering key staging styles, theatre architecture and basic stage technology.
Unit 3: Character and Mask
This unit comprises of a series of workshops exploring the use of character and mask in performance. Styles explored may include:
- Neutral and Greek Chorus
- Character half mask
- Commedia Dell’Arte
Unit 4: Theatre for Young People Performance Project
This unit focuses on the development and presentation of a performance for young people. The text used will either be a play written specifically for a young audience or an adaptation of an existing text for this purpose. This final aspect of the module draws together the skills, knowledge and experience developed elsewhere in the programme and provides students with the opportunity to put theory into practice.
Throughout the module, students will be required to keep a production casebook/logbook in which they reflect on the process and their understanding of the development of the production.
Module Overview:
This module aims to give students a foundation of creative and performance skills to support their development as a theatre practitioner within the broad spectrum of applied theatre and community drama.
This module aims to give students a foundation of creative and performance skills to support their development as a theatre practitioner within the broad spectrum of applied theatre and community drama.