Module Specifications
How will I learn? Details of the learning and teaching methods for each unit of this module are given within each relevant section. How will I be assessed? Details of the assessment methods for each unit of this module are given within each relevant section. The cumulative marks of each unit form the total mark for ‘Acting’ which forms 30% of the final mark for the MA.
UNITS OF ACTING:
ACTING SKILLS Tutors: Contact hours: Timetable:
Simone Coxall/Richard Neale, Kate Maravan and visiting tutors 117 3 x 1.5 hr classes per week, Autumn 4 then 5 x 1.5 hr classes per week, Spring
Outline You are expected to interrogate your acting process based on your relationship with conscious and sub-conscious response, and to develop your use of self to explore notions of character. As part of this interrogation you will explore a number of methodologies and practitioners, including Meisner, Bogart/Landau’s Viewpoints, Nikolai Demidov, Maria Knebel’s Active Analysis and Rudolf Laban, centered around a core Stanislavskian approach to acting. Subject areas covered include: • • • • • • •
Impulse & Reaction Emotional Availability Objectives, Obstacles & Given Circumstances Imagination Improvisation Working Outside of Habitual Patterns Notions of Character
What will I be expected to achieve? On successful completion of this unit of the module you will be expected to be able to: Skills • employ tools to evaluate and assess a given text and to create clear and helpful structures for playing that text in an appropriate manner as defined by your, or your director’s, choices • create a fully embodied role which may lie outside of your habitual patterns • respond ‘truthfully’ to stimulus generated from the circumstances of the play and your acting partners
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