Drama Script as Material (9 ECTS)

Objective

Students know how to use a text and their own interpretation of it in designing and carrying out the process. Students are able to instruct and collaboratively support the performer in their expression. Students can relate to the text and work on it based on their own reading. Students see that working on a play is also a pedogigal process and a tool.

Content

Students analyse drama scripts and create a stage production while observing the group process. The contents vary according to the instructor’s choice: the focus may be, for example, on directing the performers, finding the topic through a process, processing the text according to the needs of the group. Students work on their own approach actively and create a process based on it. The most important end result may be something else than a public performance.

Materials

List of plays given beforehand. Other reading: Anne Bogart, a Director prepares.

Teaching methods

lectures, case-presentations, groupwork and independent working.

Further information

Lecturer Pieta Koskenniemi

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Students

1) participate in classes and completes the assigned tasks and practical training

2) know the basics of drama analysis and are able to apply them into practice

3) can assume the role of process leader and and choose an approach that support team work

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Students

1) participate in classes actively and work independently in different phases of the process.

2) can analyze a play and justify their views and design a group process based on the play.

3) identify the pedagogical dimensions of the group process and directing. They recognize the potential for collaboration between the performer and the director and are able to use text as the material for their work.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students
1) show commitment in their classwork and adopt an investigative approach to their work

2) can design and execute a part of a process on the basis of a drama text. Students choose an approach and work accordingly.

3) recognize the artistic and pedagogical possibilities of the stage, text, performer and group work and they are able to use them in leading the process.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Completing the course with a pass grade requires that a student has met the objectives of the course as defined in the course implementation.

Assessment methods and criteria

ongoing evaluation: active participating 70%, assignments and homework 30%, capability to find own points of view and presenting them, abilities to work in processes.