DTS2450

Contemporary drama

(ART)

Sue Tweg

8 points + 3 hours per week + Second semester + Clayton

Synopsis: Contemporary playtexts and performance processes including theatre audiences and theories of directing and acting. Theatre aesthetics, realism, absurdism and postmodernism. Ideas about popular culture, feminisms, gender, bodies and interculturalism. Tutorials/workshops will focus on the processes of making, analysing and theorising theatrical performance.

Assessment: Tutorial/workshop participation and presentation: 20% + Essay (1500 words) or short devised performance: 30% + Essay (3000 words): 50%