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Main Stage Theatre Production: Processes - TFT00082H
- Department: Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: H
- Academic year of delivery: 2023-24
- See module specification for other years: 2024-25
Module summary
This module sits alongside the Main Stage Theatre Production: Practice and is focused on enhancing your professionalism as theatre-makers and your employability, by developing your ability to document, analyse and reflect on your work on an ongoing basis throughout the project.
Module will run
| Occurrence | Teaching period |
|---|---|
| A | Semester 1 2023-24 |
Module aims
Module aims:
- to help you develop your understanding of the processes underlying successful main stage performance
- to provide you with opportunities for ongoing reflection and continuous self-development as a theatre-maker
- to introduce you to performance and production practices of a range of styles and approaches
- to develop approaches to documenting your practice which reflect your aims and tastes as a theatre-maker
Module learning outcomes
By the end of the module, you are expected to be able to:
- think reflectively about your work and position it in relation to other established and emerging practice and research
- analyse lucidly, and report on, the key decisions informing your work on the Main Stage Theatre Production
- supportively and critically engage with the work of other group members increase their employability and professionalism by using the learning on both modules to consider the creative work they want to make in the future.
Module content
This module provides students with the opportunity to consider and develop their work as theatre-makers. It invites students to contextualise their work within the professional theatre industry and wider cultural sector and to analyse their work within this context. Through lectures and workshops, the module introduces students to examples of innovative approaches to creative documentation, as well as to publications by emerging and high-profile theatre-makers. Via the development of a portfolio, the module is designed to prompt students to use their experiences on the parallel Main Stage Production: Practice module to analyse and develop their craft, to plan for their future careers and to consider how their approaches to making theatre are and could be inspired or influenced by the experiences of others.
Indicative assessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Essay/coursework | 100 |
Special assessment rules
None
Additional assessment information
Formative feedback is embedded in one-to-one supervision sessions and the workshop-rehearsal format.
*For summative assessments, students will lose 3 marks per workshop, seminar or practical missed for this module.
Indicative reassessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Essay/coursework | 100 |
Module feedback
You will receive written feedback in line with standard University turnaround times.
Indicative reading
Examples will be drawn from relevant practice as fits the choices of texts, and will vary from year to year.