This advanced module offers the student an opportunity to engage with challenging and innovative theatre practices of the twentieth century and today and incorporate them in a small-scale production. It also provides critical engagement with a range of contemporary plays in English.
Module Aims
1. To survey major theatre practitioners and theorists of the twentieth-century
2. To introduce and interrogate innovative theatre practices that can challenge contemporary audiences
3. To offer the student an opportunity to rehearse and participate in a challenging small-scale production
4. To survey a range of contemporary plays in English.
5. To develop analytical skills in the context of contemporary drama.
Practitioners:
- Theatre laboratories: Grotowski, Peter Brook
- Political theatre, feminist theatre, documentary theatre
- Postmodernism and performance: performance art, The Wooster Group, Forced Entertainment
- Devising, immersive theatre: Anne Bogart, Louise Lowe
Playwrights:
- selection of postwar 20th-century and 21st-century playwrights from Ireland, the UK and the US, as well as postcolonial writers
Lecture and seminar for the contemporary drama component.
Workshop, seminar and rehearsals for the production component.
The two components of the module may be taught separately.
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| Assessment Breakdown | % |
| Other Assessment(s) | 100 |