Performance Skills 5 (9715.4)
Available teaching periods | Delivery mode | Location |
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View teaching periods | On-campus |
South Bank, QLD |
EFTSL | Credit points | Faculty |
0.125 | 3 | Faculty Of Arts And Design |
Discipline | Study level | HECS Bands |
School Of Arts And Communications | Level 3 - Undergraduate Advanced Unit | Band 2 2021 (Commenced After 1 Jan 2021) Band 2 2021 (Commenced Before 1 Jan 2021) |
The students will continue to refine and develop their acting through the exploration of modern and contemporary texts. They will explore the important playwrights and theorists that have shaped the development of the art of acting in the 20th Century.
In this unit, learners work toward increased refinement of physical and vocal flexibility and strength, which allows their bodies and voices to sustain them throughout the challenges of work in the performing arts industry.
The students will continue to engage in physical performance training. They will be introduced to the work of various 20th Century experimental and physical theatre practitioners and companies.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:1. Employ acting, vocal and physical training techniques at a developing advanced level;
2. Employ key applied techniques of vocal training when performing a range of performance texts and when performing in a variety of performance contexts;
3. Employ acting techniques in the presentation of modern and contemporary texts; and
4. Apply communication skills in an academic/creative context.
Graduate attributes
1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
2. UC graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - evaluate and adopt new technology
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
Prerequisites
9714 Performance Skills 49718 Screen & TV Studies
Corequisites
None.Incompatible units
None.Equivalent units
None.Assumed knowledge
None.Year | Location | Teaching period | Teaching start date | Delivery mode | Unit convener |
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2025 | South Bank, QLD | Semester 1 | 03 February 2025 | On-campus | Ms Lisa O'Neill |
Required texts
ACTING:
Required Text:
Meyrick, J. (n.d.). Australia in 50 Plays [Review of Australia in 50 Plays]. Currency.
Extra reading
Gale, M. B. & Deeney, J. F (eds). (2010). The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook: from modernism to contemporary performance. London and New York: Routledge.
Pinter, H. (2205). "Nobel Lecture: Truth, Art and Politics" retrieved from http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture-e.html
"How Australian is it?" By Alison Croggon in Overland, Print Issue 200 Spring 2010 in https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-200/feature-alison-croggan/ Retrieved 25/1/18
Bovell, A. When the Rain stops Falling.
Gray, O. The Torrents
"Blasted" and "Crave" in Kane, S. (2001) Sarah Kane Complete Plays. London: Methuen Drama.
VOICE:
PLAYS:
Trumpets and Raspberries by Dario Fo (1981). (Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in 1992 in Dario Fo Plays 1.)
The Proposal (1889) and The Bear (1890) by Anton Chekhov. (Published by Penguin Books in 1970 in Chekhov Plays.)
A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau (1907). (Published by Samuel French in 1966 as A Flea in Her Ear – A Farce-comedy in 3 Acts translated by Barnett Shaw.)
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
(1595-6). (Published by Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare in 1979.)
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (1899). (Published by Dover Publications 1990.)
What the Butler Saw by Jo Orton (Published posthumously in 1969). (Published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama – Modern Classics in 2013.)
Noises Off by Michael Frayn (1982). (Published by Samuel French Inc.)
One Man, Two Guv'nors by Richard Bean (2012). (Published by Oberon as part of the Oberon Modern Plays series.)
Rumors by Neil Simon (1988). (Published by Samuel French Inc.)
The Underpants (an adaptation of the play by Carl Sternheim) by Steve Martin. (2002). (Published by Hatchette Books.)
Dimboola by Jack Hibberd. (1968). (Published by Penguin Books in 1974.)
The Popular Mechanicals by Keith Robinson
& Tony Taylor. (1992). (Published in Contemporary Austraian Plays Edited by Russell Vandenbroucke. Methuen Drama. 2001.)
**There are various editions of most of these plays and students are welcome to use any version. However, for the purposes of the Chekhov group pieces, your group must work from the same script.
BODY:
Keefe, J., & Murray S. (Eds.). (2007). Physical theatres: A critical introduction. Routledge.
Allain, P., & Harvie, J. (2014). Theatre and performance. Routledge.
Submission of assessment items
Extensions & Late submissions
Artificial intelligence
Students are not permitted to use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in assessments for this unit.
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- the Unit Convener has authorised GenAI use for that assessment
- the student uses GenAI in the way that the assessment instructions allow
- the student fully acknowledges their use of GenAI, with proper citations, references and a GenAIAcknowledgement Statement in line with the assessment instructions.
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Participation requirements
Many of the activities that occur in this class involve group work and physical contact with other students. This is the nature of acting. Classes will, at times, be quite physically vigorous and students need to be willing to participate in all activities. Students need to wear comfortable clothing to each class and should bring a hard copy journal to take notes during and after classes in order to be able to write the second assessment item in voice.
Required IT skills
Students must be familiar with the LMS Canvas as they will be required to download all lecture notes and readings and submit assessment tasks.
Work placement, internships or practicums
N/A
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