DRA7014
Text, Self, Performance
Level 7 (30 credits)
This module explores through practice the relation between text, self, and performance, in order to investigate critically the way performance may articulate individual experience, to invoke or confirm aspects of collective identity, and to complicate the assumed relations between performances and texts. Through weekly practical workshops and contextual research, you will explore forms, methodologies and topics including (for example): writing for solo performance, live art, verbatim and documentary theatre, improvisation, protest performance, and oral histories. Your practical investigations will be embedded in critical readings in identity politics and social justice, in relation to identity formations including gender, sexuality, race, class and ability. In your engagement with found or created texts, you will consider truth and dissemblance, authenticity and representation, auto/biography and disclosure, particularity and community, the politics of representation, and the ethics of performance. Throughout, an emphasis is placed on testing the limits of familiar approaches to creating and performing texts.
Preparing for this module and approximate costs:
There is some content covered on the programme that you may find challenging and sensitive. We do not issue content notes for individual texts (written, performance, visual, sonic etc.), but please do contact your module tutor and/or convenor and/or adviser if you have concerns or problems relating any of the content, themes or discussions.
Programme |
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Learning Context |
Practice-based |
Semester |
Semester 2 |
Assessment |
1. Performance Project (15 mins) 60% 2. Portfolio (2000 words) 40% |
Contact |
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School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London
Contact: sed-information@qmul.ac.uk
Last updated on 26 June 2024 by Richard Coulton
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