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DT6112: Advanced Theatre Production Practicum
12 months long | Credits: 10
This module integrates MA students into key theatrical production roles on productions staged with BA students in collaboration with staff or guest artist directors. Students contribute centrally to performance responsibilities related to acting, direction, dramaturgy, design and/or management that necessitate peer management and the creation of original content (including material for performance or performance/rehearsal management plans).
(Language of instruction: English)
Learning Outcomes
- Execute key responsibilities involved in specialized theatre roles such as stage manager, actor, designer.
- Administer one or more defined leadership roles within a live theatrical production from rehearsal through public performance as measured by key factors including management of peers, size of role, and independence of design process and execution as possible.
- Lead and organise innovative solutions to production problems.
- Supervise the delegation of responsibility for solving production problems to peers in consultation with team members and staff in artistic roles.
- Analyse theatre techniques and design materials including light, sound and costume in relationship to a complex and developed understanding of theatre history through engagement with independent research relevant to the production in final research essay.
- Articulate and probe the relationship between practical experience learned from previous production experiences with challenges and successes experienced during this process.
- Track and analyse the evolution of their individual and independently developed production concept such as original design, staging of a scene or movement sequence, or execution of a large acting role with demonstrable originality over the course of the entire process.
Assessments
- Continuous Assessment (100%)
Teachers
- PATRICK LONERGAN:
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- KAREN M WALSH:
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- MIRIAM HAUGHTON:
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- AOIFE HARRINGTON:
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- EMMA BRINTON:
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Reading List
- "The director's craft" by Katie Mitchell
ISBN: 0415404398.
Publisher: Routledge - "The Empty Space" by Peter Brook
ISBN: 0141189223.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) - "Stage management" by Gail Pallin
ISBN: 1848420145.
Publisher: Nick Hern - "The Cambridge introduction to scenography" by Joslin McKinney, Philip Butterworth
ISBN: 0521612322.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Cambridge University Press, 2009. - "The Routledge companion to theatre and performance" by Paul Allain and Jen Harvie
ISBN: 0415257212.
Publisher: London ; Routledge, 2006.
Note: Module offerings and details may be subject to change.