Rehearsed Presentation - Duration 15 minutes.

Continuous assessment relates to learning outcomes 2,3
Performance element relates to learning outcome 1

This module will involve students in the study and practice of directing actors in theatre plays. Students will understand the disciplines and techniques required of both the director and the actor to achieve the best possible outcome to final performance. Students will learn the professional approach to the rehearsal and production processes covering varying styles of theatre from naturalism to absurdism; from Epic theatre to Shakespeare.

Workshops (One and a half hours per week) will enable students to explore the relationship between the director and the actor and the challenges involved in the production of short extracts of differing styles of text. Students will follow a systematic technical process from week to week, building to a final showing of the work studied. Early workshops will examine the "art" of directing and acting from a historical viewpoint by studying past approaches that have influenced or inform the present. The extracts will be presented in "blacks" at the end of the Semester.

Library
Rehearsal room and Studio space.
IT Software (e.g. word processing and internet access)
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

Stephen Unwin, "So You Want To be A Theatre Director" (N.H.B 2006)
Shomit Mittet "Systems of Rehearsal" (Routledge 1992)
Don Taylor, "Directing Plays" (A & C Black 1996)
Constantin Stanislavski "An Actor Prepares" (Methuen)
Helen Manfull, "Taking Stage - Women Directors on Directing" (Methun 1992)
Delgado, Heritage "In Contact With Gods" - Directors Talk Theatre (Manchester U.P 1996)