Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Liverpool Screen School
Learning Methods
Tutorial
Workshop
Module Offerings
6000MTP-SEP-MTP
Aims
To offer students an opportunity to extend independent preparation and practice and develop advanced skills in a selected musical theatre role (or roles, if appropriate – i.e. director and actor; musical director and composer)
To enable students to realise musical theatre that will be useful as part of professional portfolio or in accessing further advanced skills training;
To further consolidate understanding of developing personal musical theatre practice in a wider context.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Apply advanced skills in their specific musical theatre role(s) across a range of contexts;
2.
Articulate their understanding of theoretical principles through their musical theatre practice.
3.
Work independently in preparation and execution of their specific role in a musical theatre context.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Students may opt to specialise in one or more roles in the creation and performance of musical theatre. Through tutor led classes and exercises, they will plan and agree a portfolio of activity which they will then develop independently in terms of preparation and realisation. This work however will be focused through regular workshops and a series of opportunities for sharing the work in a ‘performance’ context – (e.g. lunchtime theatre, showcase try-outs, cabaret, participatory workshop) – in order to receive formative feedback on developing skills. A regular weekly laboratory slot will enable students following different specialisms to come together to work collaboratively and share developments.
As examples;
An actor may work with tutors to develop a series of songs and monologues for audition purposes, work on selected material to expand range of expressivity or casting possibility, and work on new musical theatre development .
A director may work to direct a complex and extended musical scene, direct scene work relating to specific style or genre, direct a cabaret as lunchtime theatre, work with librettist/lyricist/composer on new musical development.
A librettist may choose to work on developing an outline dramaturgy and structure for a new show adapted from another source, present staged presentations of sample scenes/numbers, present an oral producers’ pitch for an original show.
Module Overview:
To offer students an opportunity to extend independent preparation and practice and develop advanced skills in a selected musical theatre role.
To offer students an opportunity to extend independent preparation and practice and develop advanced skills in a selected musical theatre role.
Additional Information:It should be noted that this module, together with the work of the other two L6 modules in this semester provide not only development of advanced musical theatre skills and/or knowledge which relates to employability, but also feeds into the two new modules in Semester 2.
They are Advanced Musical Theatre Practice 2, which culminates in the presentation of a season of work under the LJMU Drama Festival Banner, and Musical Theatre Portfolio, which allows students to draw together examples of work as a living CV and linked to part of their website for self-marketing purposes.