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Theories of Acting and Performing - MEFT2306
Media. Film and Theatre

 
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of English, Media and Performing Arts
 
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 36 units of credit
 
 
Excluded: THST2143, THST2147
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Studies theories and practices of acting and performing in text and non-text based theatre. Combines traditional academic and workshop teaching. Topic areas include: acting as cultural and political expression; relationships between actor/character/persona/spectator; approaches to text and training; analysis of the performing body; performance and performativity; intersections with modernism and postmodernism.

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