Module: DRA5005-20 Writing for Performance 2

Level: 5

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor: Sharon Clark

Module Tutor Contact Details: S.Clark@bathspa.ac.uk

Please note that in order to take this module you must have studied DRA5004-20 Writing for Performance 1.

1. Brief description and aims of module:

This module further develops your understanding and skills in writing for live performance.

This module aims to provide you with:

• An understanding of the dramaturgical craft required for writing for performance

• An exploration and development of your own skill set in writing for the stage

• A development of your dramaturgical understanding when looking at a writer led process.

• An appreciation of the wider dramaturgical issues intrinsic to the writing and shaping of a play or performance text, and the ability to consider those when developing their own work.

• A chance to develop your own writing skills for live performance

2. Outline syllabus:

You will undertake a series of writing exercises that will go to inform the development and submission of a longer play. This includes exploration around the interaction between the writer, the creative team and the audience. Process will be interrogated through a series of workshops, discussions panels and rehearsed readings. Industry professionals will be included in a series of curated seminars, called the “Inspire Sessions” to exchange skills and transfer creative knowledge. The module will culminate in a curated “scratch night” in which the short plays are presented in the form of script in hand readings. Final session with be held in a theatre in Bristol or Bath.

3. Teaching and learning activities:

Seminar discussion and practical workshops build on the ideas introduced in the lectures and critical readings and gives you an opportunity to explore your writing and develop their works-in-progress. A sequence of smaller writing tasks related to the development of their short plays will be set over the course of the module. These will be evaluated through practical workshops, individual tutorials, and mediated group discussion and feedback.

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: A short form play

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