EA325-6-FY-LO:
Actor-Led Final Projects
2024/25
East 15 Acting School
East15 (Loughton) Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 6
Current
Thursday 03 October 2024
Friday 27 June 2025
30
08 May 2024
Requisites for this module
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BA W441 Acting and Contemporary Theatre
This final year BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre module prepares you for your final graduation projects.
In this module you are introduced to the technical and artistic possibilities of multi-media performance methods. Students will devise theatre presentations using structures and methods developed earlier in the course.
Working in groups you, your fellow students and the Head of Course will decide the form you want your final projects to take. All projects are supervised however you are expected to take control of your own original work.
Students will choose concepts and ideas, write, devise, produce, direct, manage and market their own work to a professional standard, putting all their learning and skills into the realisation of fully-owned projects, with a view to taking them into professional staging.
In this module technical skills work is fully integrated with the work of preparing the projects for performance.
The aims of this module are:
- Write, devise and perform a range of original
- Develop the ability to communicate with a range of
- Experiment with a range of performance styles and forms
- Work creatively in a range of demands and
- To provide opportunities for students to stage their own work in a professional
- To put into practice the widest possible range of students’ learning in the realisation of
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Expansion of acting skills (stretching and widening your acting abilities).
- Textual comprehension (understanding and interpretation of language, plot & characters).
- Skills integration (ability to utilise varied disciplines within the context of the project) in an actor-led final project.
- Ensemble contribution to the final project (participation in and contribution to all elements of work).
- Flexibility & response to change in the creation of original work (willingness to play, take risks, change habits and break boundaries).
- Commitment (involvement and consistency) to an actor-led project.
- Self-assessment of own performance in final project (awareness of own strengths and weaknesses and ability to respond creatively to criticism).
- Achievement of the aims of the project (accomplishment of ensemble and personal goals).
No additional information available.
This module will be delivered via:
- Students work with tutors and directors in small group classes, workshops and rehearsals.
- Learning also takes place in feedback and group discussion on performances.
- Independent study and research.
- Oral formative assessment and tutor feedback is given in group session.
- Students receive written summative assessment and tutor comments at the end of term.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
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Ms Isobel Beatrice Pemberton
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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