This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
As part of the Creative Producing taught Masters-programmes in Theatre Studies, this module introduces and expands students’ knowledge and familiarity with the preparation, research and understanding of general approaches, fields, and methodologies of academic research at postgraduate level, including techniques of bibliography and documentation, and with current subject-specific discourses in the field; these may include current aspects such as theatre historiography, performance studies, theatricality, liveness, mise-en-scène and postdramatic theatre. They will gain skills in writing and describing projects in a cohesive and persuasive manner. Students can also be thoroughly introduced and integrated within the departmental networks and research groups, encountering and discussing ongoing research projects by departmental staff and fellow postgraduate students, as well as following and debating current work and thinking.
150 study hours
100% coursework: 3000 word assignment/presentation (100%)
James Seabright , So You Want to be a Producer,,Nick Herne Books, 2010
Pavis, P., Analyzing Performance: Theatre, Dance, Film. University of Michigan Press, 2003.
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
On successful completion of the module, students will be able to demonstrate:
- advanced critical, artistic and conceptual research paradigms in Theatre Studies in order to comprehend, interpret and intelligently engage with the work of production and performance;
- current research and critical debates, as they are undertaken within the industry, department, its research groups, departmental and cross-Faculty research centres, and the wider field of Theatre Studies;
- bibliographical and documentation techniques as well as other research methodologies in order to engage with theatre performance, production and text-based as well as visual and performed sources on an advanced level, and to apply these techniques efficiently and effectively in their own postgraduate work;
- creative and critical engagement in and independent management of their academic research, whether investigating past or present theatre practices, own production needs and/or the creation of new work;
- the inherent interdisciplinary nature of theatre, dance, performance, art, philosophy and culture, and how to apply effectively knowledge, concepts and skills from other disciplines to enhance the understanding of theatre practices.
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