2017-18 Summer
(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
Session 1: Introduction to the relationship between theatre and culture
Session 2: Antigone by Jean Anouilh and Sophocles, and the Metaphorical and Naturalistic style
Session 3: Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka & Steven Berkoff and Physical theatre style
Session 4: The Coffin is Too Big for The Hole by Kuo Pao Kun, chorus & solo work, and symbolic style
Session 5: Reflection on the meaning of the three plays and the performing styles and form small companies
PHASE 2: Applying Skills, Rehearsal & Presentation
Session 6: Script analysis, finding the beats, designing the space
Session 7: Transforming the text into actions, from page to stage
Session 8: Practicing specific performing skills & Final Rehearsal
Session 9: Final Performances, Comments from instructor, instructions on how to write the critical commentary
- 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 : 24-24 Apr 2018Add/Drop : 09-09 Oct 2024
Instructor
Krissy Yin LAM
Assessment
| Course Contribution & Attendance | 30% |
| Final Presentation | 35% |
| Reflective Journals | 20% |
| Self-Peer Assessment | 15% |
Class Schedule
Tues & Thurs |1:30 pm - 4:20 pm
Except 19 Jun | 1:30 pm - 3:20 pm
Venue: CYT-G009A&B
Except the following dates:
10, 12, 17 July | LG5201