School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Theatre Production 4
  • Unit Code

    ACT3106
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Glenda LINSCOTT

Description

This capstone unit refines the skills of the actor to a professional working standard on challenging plays of different genres and styles. Students collaborate with visiting artists or staff directors, and production students and staff. They perform in a major theatrical production for the general public and are reviewed by professional critics.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ACT3006

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Embody a refined process for developing a fully realised character while delivering a highly detailed and original performance according to the demands of the play and the production.
  2. Embody vocal transformation through seamless integration of technically assured vocal skills according to the needs of the play and the production.
  3. Perform with strong, highly detailed and fully focused physical command in relation to the play and the production.
  4. Integrate design, costume, sound and lights into an accomplished performance, and engage with audience in a sustained, sensitive and wholly appropriate way.
  5. Practice a highly refined and embodied professional attitude and approach to theatre work and apply a sophisticated self-reflection process for integration of craft and future growth.

Unit Content

  1. Theatre production: The final production will be chosen to showcase the graduating ensemble.
  2. Research and development.
  3. Mental reconnaissance.
  4. Script analysis.
  5. Character development, function and arc.
  6. Rehearsal technique.
  7. Integrate all actor processes, voice, movement and acting to the realization of the specific challenges of the text and production.
  8. Collaboration with director, other creatives and ensemble.
  9. Working appropriately with audiences.
  10. Publicity.
  11. Self-reflection.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered55 x 4 hour practical classNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered11 x 1.5 hour seminarNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered11 x 1 hour studioNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
WorkshopResearch and development/rehearsal processes30%
PerformanceProduction60%
Reflective PracticeLogbook, journal and reflection10%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Theatre Production 4
  • Unit Code

    ACT3106
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Glenda LINSCOTT

Description

This capstone unit refines the skills of the actor to a professional working standard on challenging plays of different genres and styles. Students collaborate with visiting artists or staff directors, and production students and staff. They perform in a major theatrical production for the general public and are reviewed by professional critics.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ACT3006

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Embody a refined process for developing a fully realised character while delivering a highly detailed and original performance according to the demands of the play and the production.
  2. Embody vocal transformation through seamless integration of technically assured vocal skills according to the needs of the play and the production.
  3. Perform with strong, highly detailed and fully focused physical command in relation to the play and the production.
  4. Integrate design, costume, sound and lights into an accomplished performance, and engage with audience in a sustained, sensitive and wholly appropriate way.
  5. Practice a highly refined and embodied professional attitude and approach to theatre work and apply a sophisticated self-reflection process for integration of craft and future growth.

Unit Content

  1. Theatre production: The final production will be chosen to showcase the graduating ensemble.
  2. Research and development.
  3. Mental reconnaissance.
  4. Script analysis.
  5. Character development, function and arc.
  6. Rehearsal technique.
  7. Integrate all actor processes, voice, movement and acting to the realization of the specific challenges of the text and production.
  8. Collaboration with director, other creatives and ensemble.
  9. Working appropriately with audiences.
  10. Publicity.
  11. Self-reflection.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered55 x 4 hour practical classNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered11 x 1.5 hour seminarNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered11 x 1 hour studioNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
WorkshopResearch and development/rehearsal processes30%
PerformanceProduction60%
Reflective PracticeLogbook, journal and reflection10%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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