2020/21

This module explores a range of considerations to do with creating and presenting a characters in dramatic performance. You will study selected approaches to understanding and developing character in performance; explore and apply these in a workshop setting; prepare your own character-based performances for presentation; and develop your own actor's handbook of key findings, techniques and tasks geared to your own interests and development as a performer. The module will help you to gain the confidence and skills to be able to approach auditions and acting projects in the future, and will have wider benefits in terms of your understanding of dramatic texts, the construction of character, and approaches to performance.