Writing/performance
P Snow and A de Quadros
8 points
* 3 hours per week
* First semester
* Clayton
Objectives Upon successful completion of this subject students should have had experience in the following modes of writing performance: as a brief or outline for a possible future performance; as a performance work ready to be made; as a record of a performance work in production; and as a critical analysis of performance process.
Synopsis This subject investigates the processes involved in writing and creating both a performance work and a performance text of that work. Students will start by working in small groups to explore various strategies of initiating new performance work, including the possibilities of various sites and modes of performance. They will have to decide which methodology will be employed and therefore which processes of research and training will be required. Students will be asked to hand in a written brief of performance conceptualising these issues. Students will then have to write and prepare the performance work according to this brief. Upon completion of the project students will be asked to write a performance text of the work, as it was in production, and to write an analysis of some of the processes of the writing performance project.
Assessment Seminar participation: 30%
* Workshop investigations and
performance project: 40%
* Performance text and critique (3000 words in
total): 30%
Recommended texts
Details of appropriate readings will be available in a course booklet from the Centre for Drama and Theatre Studies in early January.
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