Theatre Making

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

Theatre Making is a skills-based module that builds an essential foundation for your practice and thinking as a student of theatre and performance. The module is made up of a series of hands-on workshops in which you will encounter a range of practices and techniques that are essential to an understanding of theatre and its place within a broader study of history and culture. You will work both conceptually and practically to understand forms as diverse as digital theatre making, improvisation, theatre for social change, site-specific and immersive theatre.

Throughout the module you will maintain a practice journal in which you critically reflect on the workshops and the ideas you encounter. The practice-based workshops will be supplemented by a range of critical texts for your independent reading and research.

Indicative syllabus

• Digital dramaturgies
• Documentary theatre
• Site-specific theatre
• Improvisation
• Script analysis
• Scenography and space
• Devised theatre making

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.