Dramaturgy A: Text and Performance (PERF116)
School of Music and Drama - University of Wollongong
Semester 1 / 2009

Texts

A Doll's House!$!Ibsen, Henrik; Translated by McLeish, Kenneth!$!!$!Cambridge University Press!$!2005
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Theory/Theatre: An Introduction !$!Fortier, Mark!$!!$!Taylor & Francis Ltd!$!2002
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y separately published work icon Barungin : Smell the Wind Jack Davis , Sydney : Currency Press , 1989 Z160138 1989 single work drama (taught in 2 units)

'Set in 1988, Barungin completes the trilogy beginning with The Dreamers and No Sugar. It deals with racially charged issues such as land rights, alcohol abuse and black deaths in custody.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Poetics!$!Aristotle!$!!$!Penguin!$!1996
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Dramaturgy and Perfomance!$!Turner, Cathy; Behrndt, Synne!$!!$!Palgrave USA!$!2007
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y separately published work icon Still Angela Jenny Kemp , Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 2002 Z957751 2002 single work drama (taught in 8 units)
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King Lear!$!Shakespeare, William!$!!$!Penguin!$!2005
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Hamlet!$!Shakespeare, William!$!!$!Penguin!$!2005
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus!$!Sophocles; Translated by Fagles, Robert!$!!$!Penguin!$!1984
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Degrees

Bachelor of Creative Arts

Description

Dramaturgy A introduces the performance student to fundamental concepts of the text. It will provide students with an overview of theatre history from classical Greek drama to post-dramatic theatre, and familiarise students with the application of cultural/-literary theory (semiotics, post-colonial, feminist) in theatre studies and the development of performance theory.

Subject Objectives:

On successful completion of this subject students will be able to apply key theoretical concepts in the analysis of theatre texts; identify major developments in theatre history, and in particular the foundational principles of Tragedy; articulate the way in which theatre seeks to respond to cultural developments social, philosophical and political.

Assessment

Essay Writing Exercise Evaluating a Scholarly Argument (25%); Tutorial Presentation (20%); Major Essay (45%); Tutorial Participation (10%)

Supplementary Texts

Auslander, Philip. Theory for Performance Studies: A Student's Guide. Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2007.

Other Details

Current Campus: Wollongong
Levels: Undergraduate
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