Practical Essay (DRA3061)

30 credits

This module allows you to spend a term developing and delivering a performance project with a small group of like-minded peers from your year-group. This is a practical essay, so the research element is as important to the project as your performancein which you will collaborate with others to produce an original piece of performance for a context beyond the Department of Communications, Drama and Film. You will spend your time reading and practically interpreting a defined research questionworking in a group and , building on material you might have encountered on any part of the Drama programme to mount a critically informed performance. You will work in small groups with shared interests, and be supervised by a member of Drama staff. Each group will identify an area of shared interest core research questions and create a piece of researched practice for a defined performance context (these performances mayare likely to take place on or off campus, and may be live or digitally mediated). This module is athe jewel in the crown of the degree and a chance to realise your creative practice for an audience.