2015-16 Spring
(HART 1029)
1 Credit | Can be used to fulfill Common Core Requirement (Core Elective: Arts Area)
Teaching Medium: English
Course Description
In this highly practical performance-based theatre course, students will be exposed to dramatic works by influential modern and contemporary playwrights in diverse cultural and social backgrounds. Students will explore how drama as an art form operates to critically examine, deeply reflect and artistically transform stories, social phenomenon and human conditions in various cultures. Through the guided and imaginative journeys, students will have the opportunity to take on the roles of performers, directors and even designers to practice theatre-making skills. Students will apply drama knowledge and skills in studying, analyzing and performing plays of different genres with multicultural backgrounds including Greek & French, Singaporean & Chinese, British & German. Throughout the course, students will often find themselves working in small groups and taking on various roles to explore the meanings within the plays, turning the dramatic text on paper into a 3-dimensional performance, with specific performing styles and techniques.
- Develop critical understanding of the cultural roles and significance of theatre and drama.
- Acquire and apply appropriate choice of performing styles and skills for the performance of the play studied.
- Acquire and apply theatre making skills in analyzing and transforming the play text into a performance.
- Work collaboratively in small groups to explore, create and perform excerpts of the selected plays.
- Reflect and consolidate learning through practicing the skills, making observations on peers, and giving constructive meaningful feedbacks
PHASE 1: Play texts in different genres
Week 1: Introduction to the relationship between theatre and culture
Week 2: Play I – Antigone by Sophocles & Jean Anouilh
Week 3: Play II – Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka & Steven Berkoff
Week 4: Play III – The Coffin is Too Big for The Hole by Kuo Pao Kun
PHASE 2: Performing Styles and Transforming Text into Actions
Week 5: Symbolic and Solo
Week 6: Physical and Absurd
Week 7: Metaphorical and Naturalistic
PHASE 3: Applying Skills, Rehearsal & Presentation
Week 8: Formation of small group and choices of the play text
Week 9: Transforming the text into actions
Week 10: Practicing specific performing skills
Week 11-13: Final Rehearsal, Performance and Evaluation
- Kuo, P (1990) The Coffin is Too Big for the Hole And Other Plays. Singapore. Times Books International
- Berkoff, S (1988) The Trial: Metamorphosis: In The Penal Colony: Playscript: Three Theatre Adaptations from Franz Kafka
- Anouilh, J (1987) Antigone. London. Methuen Drama
Enrolment Details
Course Registration : 04-04 Oct 2024Add/Drop : 04-04 Oct 2024
Instructor
Krissy Yin LAM
Assessment
| Course Contribution & Attendance | 30% |
| Reflective Journals | 20% |
| Final Presentation | 35% |
| Self-Peer Assessment | 15% |