Independent Study Projects – 2013-2014
Each student must submit any work assigned in the weekly workshop
AND
a page-long personal feedback/reflective analysisvia email each week
You are each charged to create a piece of theatre!
... approximately 45 minutes in length, which embodies multiple characters
and speaks to a topic of social significance.
PLEASE resist the urge to create a biographical tale of your life--
Rather find a subject/event that affects your life and which you
are willing to do research into, and ultimately present more than one viewpoint upon.
As your instructor and primary advisor for this course I will be organizing workshops with theatre professionals both known to you and new.
There are some interesting links on the Devising Theatre page - find the tab under MORE above...
take a look at some physical and image-based theatre companies I've compiled there.
Each link you click on will offer additional suggestions for viewing- so start hunting
for some specific techniques or methodologies that particularly appeal to you-
you must find something that really interests you if you want to do good research that will lead to a dynamic piece of original work.
Come ON TIME to the Studio nourished, rested, warmed up and in all ways prepared for a 3-hour session of physically and intellectually demanding creative work. As the water in the building is unreliable, Points will be deducted from students who do not bring a bottle of water to EVERY session.
Please download the course document which can be found below
to your desktop immediately.
Here is what I will be demanding of you:
1. You will be making your best effort to fully document your experience in the workshops by engaging fully, taking notes and making observations, both in the practical engagement and the seminar discussions which will follow each workshop.
2. You will do your best to reflect upon the responses of both yourself and your peers to the work engaged with in each workshop and be willing to honestly share your observations.
3. You will analyze both the practical work and the assigned research without prejudice regarding its usefulness in the creative and scholarly processes of the performance being created, saving judgments until after a serious engagement has been made.
4. You will work with determination to have a working text completed by January in order to be considered for the first round of showings to take place in the Spring semester. Students who do not meet this deadline will not be given production dates until September.
5. You demand of yourself the very best effort you are capable of—these pieces will be left behind as your legacy in the Drama School’s archives and you want to make sure they are the best work you could possibly make, reflecting topics that demand our passionate engagement, and performed to the highest quality of professional standards you can achieve for yourself.
Ultimately, in addition to the creative project generated out of these series of workshops and the seminar discussions to follow each one, you will present the results of your research in a thesis book, as outlined in the course document, and submitted within all stated deadlines.
The first week each student will be required to briefly detail in an abstract of no more than 300 words, the intended topic of the theatrical piece and the primary research to be undertaken, as well as any specific methodology the student feels will be important to the process.
DON'T BE LATE!! BRING WATER!! BE PROFESSIONAL!!
New Videos Below-- check them out!
En Boca del Lupo!!
An interview with Simon McBurney
and a very short blip on Peter Brook
and a very short blip on Peter Brook
And if you are feeling especially motivated--
a feature length interview with Peter Brook
a feature length interview with Peter Brook
Gender Issues laid bare...
To motivate and inspire you
to find your real story
and speak with your own voice
to find your real story
and speak with your own voice
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