Theatre Making

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 4
• Convenor: Dr Molly Flynn
• Assessment: two pieces of coursework of 1100 words each (25% each) and a 20-minute group presentation and discussion (50%)

Theatre Making is a skills-based workshop series that builds an essential foundation for your practice and thinking as a creator of theatre and performance. Throughout the year, you will engage with a range of practices and techniques across the spectrum of theatre and performance. You will develop awareness of the function of games and exercises in the creation of performance, become familiar with techniques of movement, voice, improvisation and writing, and experiment with performance-making strategies including adaptation, performative responses to site and techniques of documentary theatre. You will maintain a practice journal critically reflecting on the games, tasks and strategies you engage in.

Alongside your development of skills as a theatre maker, you will be enabled to assess the effects of creative practice as a means of questioning and exploration. The practice-based work of the module will be supplemented by a range of critical texts for your independent reading and research.

Indicative syllabus

• Devised theatre
• Physical theatre
• Documentary performance
• Digital dramaturgies
• Sound and lighting design
• Laban technique
• Verbatim theatre making
• Social media and performance

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• demonstrate knowledge of a range of international theatre practices
• engage in consideration of theatre making as a form of research
• demonstrate skills in theatre making across styles including documentary theatre, physical theatre and digital theatre making
• work independently and in the context of a group to create an original piece of performance research.