TH241-5-FY-CO:
Theatre and Performance Makers

The details
2024/25
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
Thursday 03 October 2024
Friday 27 June 2025
30
07 June 2024

 

Requisites for this module
TH141
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Key module for

BA W401 Drama,
BA W402 Drama (Including Year Abroad),
BA W403 Drama (Including Placement Year),
BA W408 Drama (Including Foundation Year),
BA QW24 Drama and Literature,
BA QW25 Drama and Literature (Including Placement Year),
BA WQ28 Drama and Literature (Including Foundation Year),
BA WQ42 Drama and Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA P400 Film and Drama,
BA P401 Film and Drama (Including Year Abroad),
BA P402 Film and Drama (Including Placement Year),
BA P403 Film and Drama (Including Foundation Year),
MLITQ394 Drama and Scriptwriting,
BA V114 History and Drama,
BA V115 History and Drama (including Foundation Year),
BA V116 History and Drama (including Placement Year),
BA V117 History and Drama (including Year Abroad),
BA WW80 Drama and Creative Writing,
BA WW81 Drama and Creative Writing (Including Foundation Year),
BA WW82 Drama and Creative Writing (including Placement Year),
BA WW83 Drama and Creative Writing (including Year Abroad)

Module description

This module will afford students the opportunity to explore a diverse and eclectic range of historical and contemporary models of practice in different areas of theatre and performance-making, and in different global contexts.

In common usage, the word ‘model’ can mean something regarded as an ‘excellent example of a specified quality’ or a ‘thing used as an example to follow or imitate’ (Oxford Dictionary). While working in very different political, cultural, and historical contexts, the pioneering practitioners that will be explored each week on this module have all made lasting and influential contributions to the way in which acting, writing, directing and live art-making are studied and performed – each week, we will focus on a practitioner or cultural institution that has developed ‘models’ of working that have influenced approaches to theatre-making or challenged previous ideas of what theatre can be, or what it might do in the world.

Module aims

The aims of the module are:

1. To develop knowledge of a range of models/approaches to theatre practice in different global, historical, social, cultural and political contexts
2. To develop an understanding of relevant theories
3. To gain practical insights through discussion and by test-benching a variety of different creative processes, rehearsal techniques, writing exercises etc.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of this module, students will have had opportunities to gain:

1. knowledge of different models, techniques and styles of performance in a diverse range of international and historical contexts
2. the ability to appreciate, engage critically, and develop work creatively, in a variety of theatre and performance modes, forms, and genres
3. experience of engaging in performance-making, based on an acquisition and understanding of appropriate creative vocabularies, skills, structures, and working methods
4. the ability to work collaboratively, sharing responsibility, delegating, and where appropriate leading teams
5. skills in independent research
6. skills in critical writing on practice/methodology

Module information

No additional information available.

Learning and teaching methods

Anticipated teaching delivery: Weekly 1-hour online lecture and 2-hour workshop with an intensive week in the summer

Bibliography

The above list is indicative of the essential reading for the course.
The library makes provision for all reading list items, with digital provision where possible, and these resources are shared between students.
Further reading can be obtained from this module's reading list.

Assessment items, weightings and deadlines

Coursework / exam Description Deadline Coursework weighting
Coursework   Formative seminar presentation/practical workshop (during class time - week 10)    0% 
Coursework   Participation    5% 
Coursework   Choice of Independent Project: 3,000-word essay OR a Practical Assignment and a 1,000-word Critical Reflection (Practical work to take place during class time - week 24)  21/03/2025  50% 
Practical   One-week Intensive (In-class in week 31)    45% 

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

Coursework Exam
100% 0%

Reassessment

Coursework Exam
100% 0%
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Prof Jonathan Lichtenstein, email: licht@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Mary Mazzilli, email: m.mazzilli@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Liam Jarvis
LiFTS General Office - email liftstt@essex.ac.uk. Telephone 01206 872626

 

Availability
No
No
Yes

External examiner

Dr Christina Papagiannouli
University of South Wales
Research Fellow
Resources
Available via Moodle
Of 10 hours, 10 (100%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.

 

Further information
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies

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