Moodle@Warwick

This module is aimed to support you to develop your critically creative voice and practice. Through a series of structured workshops, tasks, and artist-dialogues in the first term we will work together to explore why and how you can make the work you want to make. We will think about strategies for developing work, question what ‘practice-based research’ even is, and support one another to develop our creative voices. We will also look at a handful of previous examples and alumni work and together consider what works, what stumbles, and what we can learn from those who have gone before. The module is structured to move from more supported work to more independent work as the year progresses. From the second term you will collaborate with your supervisor more and conduct more work alone/in your project group. By the end of the module you will not only have created your own piece of critically creative work but you will have learned what it means to do research through practice and also have a set of tools to take forward into your future practice -whatever that may be. Good luck, everyone!

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.