TH143-4-FY-CO:
Text Into Action
2015/16
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 4
Current
30
20 November 2012
Requisites for this module
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BA W401 Drama,
BA W402 Drama (Including Year Abroad),
BA QW24 Drama and Literature,
BA WQ42 Drama and Literature (Including Year Abroad)
This module introduces students to some of the ways in which dramatic texts are staged. It investigates some recent, and some historic, dramatic methods and applies them to a number of plays. These plays have been chosen in order to examine and interrogate a range of styles and genres. They enable students to investigate how different kinds of texts require different approaches.
Students will explore a variety of methods that can be used to approach a script during rehearsals.
Students will develop an understanding of some of the vocabulary practitioners use in the rehearsal room.
The module introduces students to close textual analysis of the play-script and is taught through practical workshops
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Students will have performed a character from an extant play.
Student will have experienced a range of processes involved in rehearsing and realising a script.
Students will develop research skills needed for the rehearsal process
Students will practise close reading of a play text
Through a series of seminars and workshops the aims of the module are:
*To familiarise students with a range of performance techniques and rehearsal methods.
*To enable students to identify the key internal mechanisms operating in a play-text.
*To familiarise students with a variety of vocabularies used in a rehearsal process.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Presentation 1 |
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0% |
| Coursework |
Research Article (Summer) |
|
30% |
| Practical |
Class Participation Mark |
|
10% |
| Practical |
Presentation 2 |
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0% |
| Practical |
Presentation 1 and Analysis |
|
30% |
| Practical |
Presentation 2 and Analysis |
|
30% |
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
Barbara Peirson and Liam Jarvis
LiFTS Taught Team - email liftstt@essex.ac.uk.
Telephone 01206 872626
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No external examiner information available for this module.
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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