2021-2022 Spring CURRENT OFFERING
(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: Antigone by Jean Anouilh and Sophocles: cultural background and meaning
Week 3: Antigone by Jean Anouilh and Sophocles: the naturalistic style and metaphors
Week 4: Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka & Steven Berkoff and Physical theatre style
Week 5: Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka & Steven Berkoff and Physical theatre style
Week 6: The Coffin is Too Big for The Hole by Kuo Pao Kun: cultural background and meaning
Week 7: The Coffin is Too Big for The Hole by Kuo Pao Kun: solo work and symbolic style
Week 8: Reflection on the three plays and forming small companies
PHASE 2: Applying Skills, Rehearsal & Presentation
Week 9: Script analysis, finding the rhythm, creating the space
Week 10: Transforming the text into actions, from page to stage
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 : 26-27 Jan 2022Add/Drop : 04-17 Feb 2022
Instructor
Krissy Yin LAM
Assessment
| Course Contribution & Attendance | 30% |
| Reflective Journals | 20% |
| Final Presentation | 35% |
| Self-Peer Assessment | 15% |
Class Schedule
Tuesday | 10:30 am -12:20 nn
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