EA246-5-FY-SO:
Contextual Studies
2016/17
East 15 Acting School
Southend Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
15
30 October 2007
Requisites for this module
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BA W496 Acting and Community Engagement
This is a compulsory full-year course for students on the FdA Community Theatre course. The module explores the role of the arts in the public realm and will introduce the wider history and context of community theatre in the UK and Europe. It will draw on the development of ideas of 'popular theatre', including theories of carnival, spectacle and community empowerment, with examples from a range of cultural contexts and practices. Students will also explore theories of representation including semiotics, drawing on visual, aural and popular culture
They will critically analyse performances, lectures and classes they have attended, drawing on appropriate technical and theoretical vocabulary. They will learn to locate performance practice within a social and cultural framework.
Term One
Theories of culture, community and identity
Community and Education
The work of Paolo Freire - oppression or empowerment?
Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed
Forum/Participatory theatre and activism
Term Two
Introducing Semiotics
Analysing Popular Culture
Theories of Representation
Semiotics and Theatre
Analysing Performance
Open/Closed Performance
Feedback, questionnaires and assessing success in learning through the arts
Term Three
Commedia dell'arte
Vaudeville and Music Hall
Bakhtin's theory of Carnival
Defining the Popular - Theories of High and Low Art
Brecht and Political Theatre
Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop
Invisible Theatre
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Lecture/ seminars, independent study, screenings
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Critical Essay |
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Presentation |
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Personal Record |
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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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For further information please email zpigadas
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Mr John Palka
Coventry University
Senior Lecturer Performing Arts
Available via Moodle
Of 450 hours, 16 (3.6%) hours available to students:
434 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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