KTB216 Drama Practice: Interpretation
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| Unit code: | KTB216 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | KTB126 |
| Equivalent(s): | KTB105 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,320 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KTB216 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | KTB126 |
| Equivalent: | KTB105 |
| Coordinator: | Shane Pike | shane.pike@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit enables you to build and apply skills of theatrical interpretation and performance through a practice-led process of script-based rehearsal and performance of selected scenes. Performance making stems from three fundamental strategies: interpretation, transformation and generation. Interpretation is the process of creating meaning from an extant work; analysis, research and contextualisation are the tools by which the meaning and significance of performance texts are revealed, developed and actioned by the collaborative group. Led by creative practice, this intermediate unit builds on introductory learning experiences to aid you to effectively perform as Drama practitioners.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify and demonstrate knowledge of selected performance techniques and theoretical concepts underpinning the realisation of script-based performances.
- Demonstrate the realisation of an interpretation through the skill-set of the performing artist.
- Identify, assess and address challenges in creative and reflective practice encountered through developing script-based performance.
Content
This unit addresses content such as: practical experience of many of the processes involved in acting (or producing) in a production of a scripted play, under the direction of teaching staff. In groups, students will research and analyse an extant work and prepare a performance outcome of excerpts that demonstrate the key themes and form of the work.
Tasks include being cast in a role (acting or managing), attending meetings, workshops, classes and rehearsals, personal research and reflection, group discussion, role preparation, and live performance.
Learning Approaches
You will work in medium to small groups and will engage in both directed and autonomous workshops and rehearsals or other production activity, taking a performance script from page to stage. There will be opportunities for close contact with, and feedback from, the teaching staff. In addition there is an emphasis in this unit on your individual learning responsibilities, both to yourself and to the group. Attention and commitment is expected to the whole process of mounting a production, and the actual on-stage acting outcome is considered as only a part of what ‘performance-making’ implies.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Throughout the progress of workshops and rehearsals, you will be provided with feedback, which will inform all assessments items. It is recommended that you keep a Journal/Workbook as a record of your discoveries and feedback through the course of your study and as a resource for future performance endeavour.
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- comments on summative assessment work, both for group work and individual endeavour
- generic comments back to the cohort during in-class discussion
- criteria sheet grading.
Assessment
Overview
This unit is framed around the preparation and performance of an extant work. Your preparation (in the form of an annotated bibliography), the progress and outcome of the performance and a reflection on your personal learning outcomes make up the substance of assessment in this unit.
Assessment is both individual and group-based. Performance making requires a personal commitment to research and analysis and a positive engagement with the essential collaborative nature of production activity.
All practice units in Drama require full attendance at rehearsals and performances for which you are called. Permission to be absent from rehearsals will not be given, and none should be sought except on strong medical or compassionate grounds. If you are consistently absent from rehearsals, regardless of the reason, you may be recast if such absence is deemed to impede the work of other students. The unit coordinator reserves the right to withdraw all roles from you if you absent yourself from rehearsals or performances, and you will be deemed to have failed the unit.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Annotated Bibliography
A response to a selection of readings designed to scaffold the process of interpreting a script as performance.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Performance
A performance in one or more roles in a script based theatre project.
Assessment: Workbook
The progressive documentation of your personal creative process related to the performance outcome.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Required Texts
Students will need the relevant play-text to the major exercise, plus other readings (such as background to each play) as deemed appropriate by the teacher/director.
- Required reading will be available online.
- Students are reminded that proper clothing appropriate for active studio work is required, including closed-in shoes.
Recommended References
Other reference materials will be available online.
Risk Assessment Statement
All students and staff are required to complete the Tier 1 CIF General Health and Safety Induction for access to campus buildings and facilities. This must be completed online.
This unit also requires a Tier 2 CIF Health and Safety Induction which is provided by the technician on site in the theatre, workshop or studio. Not all students are required to complete the Tier 2 induction.
As all performance-makers understand, creating a performance potentially carries with it certain physical and/or emotional risks, both in the rehearsal room and in the theatre. Indeed taking risks is an integral component of the art form’s processes. Some rehearsal warm ups and exercises, and some performance events may include physically or emotionally strenuous activities. Managing this risk to ensure working conditions are safe, is always a high priority in the production process. It is therefore extremely important that if you are aware of personal physical or emotional vulnerabilities that make you feel unsafe or at risk in any way, you should immediately inform teaching staff or other supervisors so that your situation can be evaluated and appropriate rectifying action can be taken.
Theatres and other performance spaces are also potentially dangerous places, particularly backstage during performances when low light conditions prevail. You will be warned by the stage manager, the production manager or the director of any specific risks that you will need to be aware of, when your project team first moves in to the theatre. Whenever moving into a new performance space, you should always conduct your own risk assessment, and notify your team or director of any hazards you have personally identified.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO3 - Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO2 - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO3 - Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3 - Work productively as a leader and collaborator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary creative practice.
Relates to: ULO2