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Offerings
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2019-2022
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Learning outcomes
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Demonstrate familiarity with a range of dramatic and performative modes and an understanding of their social and cultural significance.
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Critically analyse, interpret and produce or perform dramatic or performance texts from a range of cultural contexts, focussing on their status as artefacts.
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Harness the techniques and skills derived from practice-based and theoretical engagement with dramatic, theatrical and performance texts to explore philosophical, social and ethical issues in the ‘imagined’ public arena.
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Demonstrate an increased proficiency in developing performance and writing skills as a means for communicating with readers or audiences across cultural boundaries
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Additional information
Unit content:What does it mean to act? How has this idea transformed over time and how might it be used by students today to convince, to persuade, to seduce, to trick an audience or to convey specific meanings? In this unit you will work with a range of key scripts and methodologies to develop your acting skills. You will engage with the theories of Stanslavski, Brecht, Grotowski, Beckett, Churchill and Artaud as well as a range of works by key post-modern and postdramatic performance makers to learn about position, voice, projection, inflection, staging and dramaturgy so that you understand the different ways in which key dramatic texts operated in their context. You will also develop your own skills so that you can adapt texts for your own purposes and to engage contemporary audiences. Students will test their actor training in the performance of a dialogue and an audition/monologue under industry conditions.