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PRFM2602: Performance: Production and Interpretation
2023 unit information
How do we make meaning from our experience of text, movement, spatial design, costuming, lighting, sound and other elements of theatrical performance? Through practical workshops and theatre excursions, you will learn some basic production techniques and develop a critical language for analysing live performance.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Theatre and Performance Studies
| Code | PRFM2602 |
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| Academic unit | Theatre and Performance Studies |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 1000 level in Theatre and Performance Studies including PRFM1601 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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PRFM2002 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand the positioning of theatre practices with respect to the many other genres that are often the object of research in performance studies courses
- LO2. demonstrate understanding of, and put to work, key terms and concepts of semiotics and phenomenology
- LO3. develop and support, through detailed analysis, an argument about what, and how, a performance can mean
- LO4. demonstrate an awareness of the critiques to which semiotic theories and analytical methods have been subjected in recent decades
- LO5. produce a small-scale workshop performance
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