DRAP2110 Performance Techniques 2A

Class contact hours will vary depending on rehearsal and performance schedules. Please contact topic coordinator for timetable details.

In this topic, students will complete their basic vocal and physical training. In their acting and directing classes, students concentrate on techniques required to perform contemporary naturalism on stage and screen and poetic texts.

This topic aims to:

• Build on already acquired skills necessary for eventual employment as actors and directors in the theatre, television, and film industries
• Encourage all students to work as both interpretive and conceptual artists
• Develop an understanding of vocal, physical, and imaginative techniques for performance in naturalistic productions on stage and screen

1. Demonstrate the improvisation, acting and interpretive skills required by professional actors at an intermediate level, particularly skills in naturalistic acting live in intimate spaces and in wide shot and close-up work for camera
2. Use body awareness, strength, flexibility, alignment and coordination in acting situations
3. Demonstrate the vocal techniques necessary in live and electronic performance at an intermediate level

1. Demonstrate a basic understanding of the process of presenting a play from selection through to production
2. Begin to diagnose what is happening on stage and suggest solutions
3. Design a performance at a basic level
4. Research to further the work in and on a performance
5. Select or write material, storyboard it and shoot a short film (optional)