University of Exeter Drama Subject Brochure 2015

DRAMA UNDERGRADUATE STUDY 2015 ENTRY

KEY INFORMATION AND ENTRY REQUIREMENTS UCAS CODE

TYPICAL OFFER

Drama

W400

AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32

Drama with Study Abroad

W401

AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32

English and Drama

WQ34

AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34

English and Drama with Study Abroad

WQ35

AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34

Drama and Visual Culture

WW42

AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34

Drama and Visual Culture with Study Abroad

WW24

AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34

BA Single Honours

BA Combined Honours

For further details on all our entry requirements, please see our Drama pages at www.exeter.ac.uk/ ug/drama We strongly advise that you check this before attending an Open Day or making your application. Some programmes require prior study of specific subjects and may also have minimum grade requirements at GCSE or equivalent, particularly in English Language and/or Mathematics.

International students If you are an international student you should consult our general and subject-specific entry requirements information for A levels and the International Baccalaureate, but the University also recognises a wide range of international qualifications. You can find further information about academic and English language entry requirements at www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/ international

Our admissions process We endeavour to see as many applicants as possible before making an offer. Around half of applicants are invited to two days of workshops and an interview. A short interview with an individual member of staff is combined with staff-led and separate, student-led studio sessions. Working and talking with each other and with present students are important features of this experience. For most applicants this involves an overnight stay in Exeter. Usually, most admissions workshops are held in the last week of January, and two smaller one-day workshops in December and March. Applicants for deferred entry need to be available for interview in the final year at school/college.

STREATHAM CAMPUS, EXETER Website: www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/drama Email: hums-ugadmissions@exeter.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)1392 722427

DRAMA 1st in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2014 2nd in the Russell Group for Overall Satisfaction in the National Student Survey 20131 Ranked 9th in UK for world leading research2 Collaborative and practice-based approach including drama in the community Opportunities to specialise in areas such as directing, contemporary performance, music theatre, actor training, applied theatre, dramaturgy, theatre history and technical theatre crafts Drama at Exeter offers you the time and space to explore and experiment with performance and performance making.

Taught largely through studio sessions, the relationship between theory and practice is central to the discipline. Our academic staff teach a range of performance and specialist skills and all of our teaching grows out of our research interests, so you will be taught by people at the forefront of their field who are passionate about the subject.

You’ll be able to research a broad array of theatre histories and critical theories as well as specialist practical modules which will prepare you for work in many areas of the cultural industries. You’ll obtain key transferable skills that can be taken into many professions.

We provide a supportive environment, where collaborative work with fellow students allows you to take innovative new approaches. You will need a great deal of commitment, and demand the same from us in return, and this commitment will be rewarded with an outstanding experience and education.

based on the average percentage of positive responses across all survey categories for full service universities Research Assessment Exercise 2008 based on the percentage of research categorised as 4*

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There’s plenty of contact time with staff, who will challenge you and support the development of your intellectual and creative skills. Your lecturers will be active researchers whose interests include areas such as the theory and practice of actor-training, transnational performance, 20th and 21stcentury theatre practitioners, dramaturgy and playwriting, new media, live art, site-specific performance, gender and performance, Shakespeare, music theatre, voice training, arts management, theatre and religion and the politics of culture.

The study of Drama at Exeter dates back to 1927 and we have now offered a fulltime Drama programme for over 45 years.

The department is one of the largest and best equipped in the UK. Over the last few years we have expanded and have excellent facilities which place Exeter at the top for teaching spaces and resources. We have invested £3.7 million in our industry standard drama facilities providing a superb environment for learning and research.

DEGREE PROGRAMMES The programmes aim to develop an understanding of performance skills alongside a critical and imaginative engagement with the social, historical and cultural contexts of theatre. Interest and involvement in contemporary theatre are central. The programmes encourage this both as a subject of research and as a practical experience through performance and community-based activities. The studiobased work equips you with abilities to communicate effectively, to pursue creative analysis and to initiate and organise complex individual and group projects.

Most teaching and learning is undertaken in studio exercises, rehearsals and training workshops. Other activities include seminar presentations, independent research projects, and public and restricted audience performances. All students have a personal tutor who is available for advice and support throughout their studies, and a student mentor during the first year.

How your degree is structured Degrees are divided into core and optional modules giving you the flexibility to structure your degree according to your specific interests. Individual modules are worth 30 credits each and full-time undergraduates need to take 120 credits in each year. Within Drama, in addition to the core modules, you can choose from an extensive range of options, a few examples of which are shown at the back of this brochure.

For up-to-date details of our programme and modules, please check www.exeter.ac.uk/ ug/drama

Single Honours BA Drama The degree is composed of a series of modules, most of which conclude with a presentation open to other Drama students and staff, to the University at large, or to the general public. In the early stages of the programme the emphasis is on group collaborative work. As you move through the degree this group work becomes the basis for the development of individual interests and skills. Throughout the programme all Drama students get equal opportunities and challenges to act, to direct and to write or otherwise create dramatic events.

Year 1 In the first half of the year you will study a studio-based module called Acting and Not Acting, and a seminar-based module, Pre-texts and Contexts of Drama 1, which introduces you to theatre studies and performance analysis as disciplines of Drama.

In the second half of the year your practical work will focus on a performance-orientated module rooted in research through practice entitled Research and Performance, and Theatrical Interpretation: Practitioners will introduce a selection of modern and contemporary practitioners in their context.

Year 2 In your second year you study two core modules: Performance and Interpretation, which will extend and deepen your critical and theoretical vocabulary of theatre; and Staging the Text, which involves studio-based exploration of a range of theatrical texts. You will also choose two options from a range of studio-based and seminar-based modules.

You may be able to study abroad for half a year, and you can choose to integrate work experience into your degree in the module Humanities and the Workplace.

Year 3 In your final year you can specialise in practical and research options such as Interpretative Acting, Approaches to Directing, Playwriting, and Voice for the Actor. Your degree culminates in the Practical Essay, a piece of original performance that you will create with a small group of fellow students for an audience beyond the University, and Theatre Praxis, an in-depth independent study of a chosen area of theatre and performance.

BA English and Drama English and Drama at the University of Exeter is a challenging and flexible degree that builds on two internationally-renowned centres of excellence in research, teaching and theatre practice. Our teaching grows out of our wide-ranging, world-leading research interests and we provide a supportive and high-quality environment for learning.

The programme provides you with a sense of a range and variety of literary works, introduces you to theoretical approaches that enable you to engage critically with texts understood in their historical and cultural contexts, and develops your critical, imaginative and practical engagement with the social, historical and cultural contexts of theatre.

English modules are taught by staff with expertise in literature from the Middle Ages to the present, in cinema throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, and in creative writing practices in poetry, prose and screen writing. Drama modules are taught by staff with expertise in theatre, drama and performance theory from the classical era to the present, and in practice fields including acting, directing, scriptwriting, voice, applied theatre, live art, digital theatre crafts, music theatre, puppetry, dance and intercultural performance training.

The programme covers a wide range of material allowing you to develop and follow your own interests with the provision of modules by active researchers who are at the forefront of their respective fields.

Year 1 You’ll study four core modules which will give you a solid foundation in the skills, methods and principles involved in English and Drama: Beginnings: English Literature before 1800; Acting and Not Acting: the Dialectics of Performance; and Shakespeare. In Drama, Acting and Not Acting is a studiobased module that introduces you to the principles of collaborative studio work. You will also study Theatrical Interpretation: Practitioners, which examines the work and influence of key modern theatre practitioners.

You will take an additional optional module in English.

Year 2 In this year you will build from the learning and skills developed in your first year through a range of option choices.

You will choose two English option modules, which can include: Chaucer and his Contemporaries; Creative Writing; Introduction to American Literature; Desire and Power 1570-1640; Renaissance and Revolution; Satire and the City 1660-1750; Revolutions and Evolutions in 19th Century Literature; Shots in the Dark; Spectacular Attractions: Cinema and Sensation; and The Shock of the New 1900-1953.

In Drama you will take a seminar-based module, Performance and Interpretation, which studies key theoretical approaches to analysing contemporary performance and the place of performance within culture; and one from a series of seminar-based options which may include: Theatre and Health; Music as Performance; Women and Theatre 1700-1928; Theatre in Extremis; Intermedial Performance Practice; Performance and Participation; or a studio-based module, Staging the Text.

Year 3 In the final year of your degree you will have the opportunity to focus your studies on particular areas of individual interest. You will take four modules from a wide range of options in both English and Drama. In addition you will either write a dissertation in the areas of English or Creative Writing, or take the module Theatre Praxis, an in-depth independent study of a chosen area of theatre and performance. This will give you a chance to explore a passion of yours in real depth, with guidance from an academic supervisor. However your final year must be equally weighted between English and Drama.

For full details of the English modules, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/english

BA Drama and Visual Culture Visual culture is an exciting area of study which incorporates a number of established subject areas, including art history and cultural studies. It will be of particular appeal if your interests are in fine and modern art, the history of art, cinema, literature, cultural history, philosophy, sociology or modern languages.

By studying visual culture, you will learn how to interpret visual images in order to understand contemporary and past societies, and also how these images are a reflection of a society itself and the belief systems to which it adheres. For example, you might explore the emergence of a ‘society of the spectacle’ alongside the rise of reality TV and social media in everyday life, or the idea of ‘virtual war’.

During your second and third years you will be able to follow your interests through a wide range of optional modules: you can choose to study art and material culture in ancient societies; look in detail at the way art history works; or focus on visual culture within a specific society or time period right up to the modern day.

Our visual culture programme builds on Exeter’s fine art collections, a sculpture walk and one of Britain’s largest public collections of books, prints, artefacts and ephemera relating to the history and prehistory of cinema.

Year 1 You’ll study four core modules, half of which will be in Visual Culture and half in Drama. This will give you a solid foundation in the skills, methods and principles involved in both subjects. The modules include: Introducing Visual Cultures; Acting and Not Acting; Theatrical Interpretation: Practitioners; and Contemporary Visual Practices.

Year 2 In this year you will build on the learning and skills developed in your first year through a range of option choices.

You will take one core module, Visual Media, in which you will be introduced to ways in which different media construct contrasting visual worlds. You will also take optional modules from a range including: Humanities in the Workplace; Spectacular Attractions: Cinema and Sensation; and Video – Installation – Performance. In Drama you will take a seminar-based module, Performance and Interpretation, which studies key theoretical approaches to analysing contemporary performance and the place of performance within culture; and one from a series of seminar-based options which may include: Theatre and Health; Music as Performance; Women and Theatre 1700-1928; Theatre in Extremis; Intermedial Performance Practice; Performance and Participation; or a studio-based module, Staging the Text.

Year 3 In the final year of your degree you will have the opportunity to focus your studies on particular areas of individual interest. You will take four modules from a wide range of options in both Visual Culture and Drama. You will write a dissertation in the area of Visual Culture or undertake an in-depth independent study of a chosen area of theatre and performance, giving you a chance to explore a passion of yours in real depth, with guidance from an academic supervisor.

For full details of the Visual Culture modules, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/ ug/arthistory

LEARNING AND TEACHING We teach mainly through studio sessions, which means that you will practise the subject as you learn. At the start of the programme, the emphasis is on group collaborative work which becomes the basis for the development of your individual interests and skills later on. Practical class sizes are limited to around 20.

Each week you’ll have, on average, six to nine scheduled hours per module and will need to allow for additional hours of private study per module. You should expect your total workload to average about 40 hours per week during term time. As well as attending sessions and writing essays and assignments, you’ll be expected to deliver presentations and lead workshops. We encourage presentation work because it involves you actively in the teaching and learning process as well as developing important life skills such as good verbal and visual communication and effective interaction with other people.

We’re committed to enhancing and developing your key personal and transferable skills. You’ll develop a range of professional skills such as time management and team-working, and gain valuable critical, analytical and communication skills. Technical skills will include accurate note taking from presentations, research and IT skills and you’ll also learn a wide range of drama-specific skills appropriate to your module choices.

Facilities

Study abroad

Drama is based on two sites on the Streatham Campus. All of the practical spaces we use are for use only by Drama students, giving us a high degree of flexibility.

Our facilities include two digital media suites and upgraded technical facilities.

We have six studios fully equipped for stage lighting and sound, ten other studios and seminar rooms, two sound studios, a video and multimedia studio, state-of-the-art computer facilities for lighting and sound design, and workshops for set construction, costume and prop-making. To find out more, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/drama/ facilities

Studying at Exeter offers you the exciting possibility of spending up to one year abroad. Last year almost 500 Exeter students studied at one of our partner universities, which are in more than 40 countries around the world. You could learn a new language and experience different cultures, become more self-confident and widen your circle of friends. You could also specialise in areas that aren’t available at Exeter, and when it comes to a career, your skills and knowledge of another country will prove invaluable to many employers. This of course applies equally to overseas students coming to study abroad at Exeter.

Research-inspired teaching

The Drama department has exchange links with Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia; Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia; Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey; University College Utrecht, the Netherlands; and University of Hildesheim, Germany.

Teaching that is inspired by research ensures lectures are up-to-date and relevant and you will benefit from access to the latest thinking, equipment and resources. All staff teach second and third year options which are linked to their own interests, which include areas such as theories of actor-training, non-western performance, 20th and 21st century theatre practitioners, site-specific performance, gender and performance, theatre history, music theatre, arts management and the politics of culture.

Academic support All students have a personal tutor who is available for advice and support throughout your studies. There are also a number of services on campus where you can get advice and information, including the Students’ Guild Advice Unit. You can find further information about all the services in the University’s undergraduate prospectus or online at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate

For further details of our study abroad options, please check our website at www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/drama/studyabroad

The Drama course is even better than I expected it to be.

Not only do we have numerous practical sessions, exploring a range of things from Butoh and boxing to choreography and puppetry, we also learn about other subject areas such as feminism, cultural materialism and post-colonialism. This degree is so varied that you can get pretty much whatever you want out of it and the range of jobs linked to Drama is enormous.

Eleanor Taylor-Roberts, BA Drama

CAREERS A degree in Drama from Exeter will provide you with a wide range of skills, which will be useful in your future study or employment.

Our students develop skills in researching, analysing and assessing sources, written and verbal communication, managing and interpreting information and developing ideas and arguments.

Many students from the department take part in the Exeter Award and the Exeter Leaders Award. These schemes encourage you to participate in employability related workshops, skills events, volunteering and employment which will contribute to your career decision-making skills and success in the employment market.

For further information about what the careers service offers at Exeter visit www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/careers There is a wide range of career options open to you, for instance:

Perform

Teach

Each year a significant number of our students go on to further training at Lecoq, RADA, Guildhall, Central and so on.

Many others become actors without further training and you see them regularly on your TV screens. Many graduates are working in theatre companies such as the RSC, or touring with national companies such as Out of Joint, The Terrible Infants and The Oxford Stage Company.

Each year a significant number of our students go on to teach at all levels of the education system, from primary to higher education. Graduates also work as education officers connected to theatre companies including the Royal National Theatre, Sheffield Crucible and Complicite.

Direct Many graduates of the department work as theatre directors with touring companies, as well as theatres such as the Lyric Hammersmith, Bristol Old Vic, Lincoln Theatre Royal, the Exeter Northcott Theatre, Stadttheater Linz (Austria), Orange Tree (Richmond) and the Royal National Theatre Studio. Many graduates of the department have also gone on to work in the film and television industries as directors and producers.

Research Owing to the calibre of our undergraduates, each year many of our students go on to further postgraduate study or research in Drama and related subjects at universities worldwide and become researchers and teachers in higher education. There is a fast growing network of Exeter graduates at leading universities across the world.

Write The department has produced several writers who have had work produced for The Royal Court, the Royal National Theatre (Olivier Stage), the Lyceum Theatre in the West End and the Donmar Theatre and worked with companies such as Frantic Assembly. Other graduates have written for EastEnders and had one-off dramas produced for television and film (including The Hour and The Iron Lady) and radio (Radio 4).

Form new theatre companies The synthesis of practice and theory on the course means that many graduates set up innovative theatre companies. Long-standing groups that grew from Exeter students include Punchdrunk, Theatre Alibi, Foursight Theatre and Forced Entertainment, who are all internationally renowned.

Work in arts industries The broad skills set that our students gain with us means that lots of our graduates are working in a range of exciting arts-related fields. We have DJs on BBC Radio, stand-up comedians and programme producers in television and radio, arts administrators for companies and the Arts Council England, musical directors for the arts, opera companies and films, musical composers, casting directors, TV presenters and theatrical agents.

Draw on transferable skills to work outside drama Owing to the range of key transferable skills gained in a humanities degree, our graduates are highly sought after in a number of other varied careers. Graduates of our course are employed across diverse fields including: aviation, the Civil Service, local government, management, website design, press relations, magazine editing, copywriting, accountancy, national health services, events management, law and journalism.

Work with drama in a social context Some graduates go on to take further training as drama therapists and many go on to take up employment possibilities within community and applied drama, Theatre-InEducation, work in prisons and with mental health service users.

Work in technical areas Students have become stage managers at venues such as The Royal Court, company managers for companies such as The Reduced Shakespeare Company, as well as lighting designers and television floor managers in a wide range of prestigious venues.

MODULES

KEY C = Core O=O ptional

For up-to-date details of all our programmes and modules, please check www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/drama

English and Drama

Drama and Visual Culture

C

C

C

C

Beginnings: English Literature before 1800

Drama and Visual Culture

Drama

Acting and Not Acting

Module Name

English and Drama

Module Name

Drama

Year 3 Modules

Year 1 Modules

After Auschwitz: Memory, Trauma and Representation

O

O

O

Applied Drama: Practices and Perspectives

O

O

O

Contemporary Visual Practices

C

Approaches to Directing

O

O

O

Introducing Visual Cultures

C

Creative Industries Management

O

O

O

Dis-eased: Performance and the Politics of Fear

O

O

O

Disordered: Madness and Representation

O

O

O

Dissertation or Theatre Praxis (Theatre Praxis compulsory for BA Drama)

C

C

C

Pre-texts and Contexts of Drama 1

C

Research and Performance

C

Research, Text and Performance C

Shakespeare The Poem Theatrical Interpretations: Practitioners

C

C

C

Drama and Visual Culture

English and Drama

Module Name

Drama

Year 2 Modules

O

English options Experimental Music Theatre

O

O

O

History of Actin

O

O

O

Intercultural Performer Training

O

O

O

Interpretative Acting

O

O

O

Physical Performance: Choreography in Theatre-Making

O

O

O

Playwriting

O

O

O

Practical Essay

C

O

Restoration Theatre: Culture and Politics

O

O

O

Applied Drama: Interactive Theatre

O

Thatcher and After: Political Playwriting Since 1979

O

O

O

Digital Theatrecrafts

O

The Actor’s Body: Intercultural Theories and Practices

O

O

O

Humanities and the Workplace

O

Acting Greek Tragedy

O

O

Interdisciplinary Spatial Practices: Site and Journey in Performance and the Contemporary Arts

O

Intermedial Performance Practice

O

Lecoq: Theatre of Movement and Gesture Live Art Performance and Interpretation

C

C

C

Performing Objects: Automata, Puppets, Robots

O

O

O

Staging the Text

C

O

O

Theatre in Extremis: Performing (for) Survival

O

O

O

Theatre Practice: Interpretative Acting

O

Theatre Practice Dance/Choreography

O

Two English modules: one must fall into the period before 1800, one into 1800 to the present.

Theatre and Environment

O

O

O

Theatre Practice I: Applied Drama

O

O

O

Theatre Practice II: Directing

O

O

O

Versioning Shakespeare

O

O

O

O

Voice for the Actor

O

O

O

O

Visual Culture options

O

O

C

Visual Culture options

O

Visual Media

C

O

MODULES CONTINUED Please note that availability of all modules is subject to timetabling constraints and that not all modules are available every year. For a full list and details of the individual modules, please check the undergraduate section of our website at www.exeter.ac.uk/ug/drama

Year 1 Acting and Not Acting

This module introduces drama as a process through both group practice and individual practice and to acting as a craft. You’ll explore some of the uses, ideas, theoretical material and training strategies that relate to both of these activities.

Digital Theatrecrafts

This module offers you an exploration of the technologies which support performance, focusing on lighting, sound, video and stage management. Its constant aim is to test your understanding of theory through practice.

Pre-texts and Contexts of Drama 1

This module explores ways of reading performance, examines the nature and place of performance within culture and introduces the key theoretical and analytical approaches to performance.

Humanities and the Workplace (Independent Work Experience)

Research and Performance

This is an exciting studio-based module that culminates in a festival of performances from each tutor group. The idea of the module is that you theoretically and practically engage with a particular area of research and develop your own group performance from that exploration. This means that you are not staging a performance for ‘the sake of it’; rather you learn to develop a performance that is critically, creatively and thoughtfully developed from a particular area of research.

You will take part in one or two subject-related placements, totalling at least 80 hours. Benefits include: understanding how drama is applicable to the workplace, developing work-based skills and knowledge including technologies and applications, and practical experience.

Interdisciplinary Spatial Practices

In this module you’ll interrogate ‘site’ and ‘journey’ as they stand in contemporary performance and various spatial discourses, and examine potential relationships between artist, spectator and non-arts space.

Live Art

This module explores a range of live art practices including performance art, body art and biological art. Moving beyond a fixed definition of live art, the term ‘live’ will be interrogated in relation to the specificities of the live event of performance as well as the different kinds of life (human, animal, and biological life) that have been incorporated in contemporary art and experimental performance practices.

Theatrical Interpretations: Practitioners

This module introduces you to a representative selection of modern and contemporary theatrical practitioners in their context, and to their role as interpreters of texts, furthering your own sense of theatrical method and possibility.

Year 2 Performance and Interpretation

This module introduces a variety of approaches to defining performances and art-forms and the analysis and interpretation of their significance. By its reliance on cutting-edge research by a selection of staff, it will also introduce you to the concept of research in the performing arts.

Staging the Text

This module gives you a great opportunity to reflect on and creatively work on the transformation of a dramatic text onto the stage. You will be working in small groups and will work on a selection from the works of a particular playwright or group of playwrights with a view to interpreting, rehearsing, staging and performing this text.

Acting Greek Tragedy

You’ll examine practically the implications for performance found in ancient Greek tragic scripts and explore the methods appropriate to their realisation by actors, working in monologue, dialogue, or three-performer scenes. The exploration of appropriate methods will also include the study of acting with objects used as properties, of acting techniques associated with masks and of interaction of individual actors with the choric group.

Applied Drama: Interactive Theatre

The key focus of this module is on interactive theatre, which is one form of applied theatre. Within this form there are a range of dramatic approaches and structures used and you’ll look at ways of employing these within an educational setting. We will focus on Theatre in Education (TIE) and Drama in Education (DIE) and the distinctions between them.

Year 3 Practical Essay

This module allows you to draw together the experience of theatre-making gained through the degree programme and to work in a group through the complex logistics of mounting a culminating presentation that is likely to take the form of a performance.

Theatre Praxis

In this module you’ll use your practical work as a jumping off point for an in-depth independent study of a chosen area of theatre and performance. By reflecting in an extended piece of writing on an area of performance practice, you’ll further your dynamic understanding of the interrelationship between theory and practice, between thinking and doing.

Acting Shakespeare

This module introduces you to contemporary approaches to acting Shakespeare through the practical exploration of a range of his plays. The module weaves theory and practice throughout a series of seminar/laboratory/workshop sessions where we interrogate current scholarship about how to perform Shakespeare and test it out in practice.

Applied Drama – Practices and Perspectives

This module will enable you to gain an overview of a number of different applied contexts, for example theatre in education, theatre and prisons, theatre in sites of war, theatre and special needs, theatre and development/empowerment (eg, in Africa). There will be input in the seminars and lectures from practitioners in the field.

Approaches to Directing

This module offers you in-depth study of a range of approaches to directing and the changing role of the director. It explores specific directors and productions focusing mainly on the 20th and 21st centuries.

Creative Industries Management

This module offers you an insight into the practical management of the arts in addition to developing your professional and employment related skills. It introduces you to the project and time management skills required for delivering an arts event which you will then hone and develop through the research, creation and realisation of your own performance brand.

Playwriting

This module is designed for students with an active and committed interest in developing their writing skills for live and recorded performance through: practical, progressive writing tasks to develop an understanding of the writer’s craft; discussion of the writer’s role in contemporary theatre; writing for different contexts and spaces; and input from professional directors, dramaturgs and designers.

Intercultural Performer Training

This module develops a strong foundation in preperformative, psycho-physiological, body-mind practices applied to acting and performance through Asian martial and meditation arts.

Voice for the Actor

Interpretative Acting

This module furthers your understanding of the theories and practices of performance and encourages a flexible and exploratory approach towards processes for preparing texts for performance.

Vocal Practice provides an experiential foundation in practical voice, speech and body skills, and the application of these to the oral interpretation of a range of written texts. The method of voice training will primarily focus on techniques developed by Kristin Linklater, Cecily Berry and Patsy Rodenburg.

ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER We are in the top 1% of universities in the world We rank 8th in The Times and The Sunday Times University Guide 2014 and 10th in The Complete University Guide 2014 We have ranked in the top 10 of the National Student Survey every year since it launched Our teaching is inspired by our research, nearly 90% of which was ranked as internationally recognised in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise 84% of our students graduate with either a First or 2:1 degree

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Offer-Holder Visit Days

Our Offer-Holder Visit Days give you the chance to find out more about your programme and decide whether to accept our offer. This visit includes a campus tour, an introduction to the department and a more informal period for questions and answers. A number of our current students lead tours and answer your questions about what it is like to study at the University of Exeter. Offer-Holder Visit Days take place during the period January to April.

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