Unit details [FPB]
Offered: Ltn: sem 1,
Special note: available as an elective to students from other courses
Unit description:
Develops an awareness of the phenomenon of theatre in formal and informal aspects of
Australian culture; a knowledge and appreciation of some representative plays by
Australian playwrights; an understanding of the performance modes and conventions associated with particular plays; and, editorial, acting, and technical skills through the various approaches and processes involved in realising the play texts as theatre.
Staff: Assoc Prof J Lohrey
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 3 hrs weekly, lectures, tutorials & practical sessions (13 wks)
Assess: dramatic presentations (25%), tutorial paper (25%), research assignment (25%), written exams (25%)
Required: tba
Recommend: tba
Courses: [F3J] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Offered: Ltn: sem 2,
Special note: available as an elective to students from other courses
Unit description:
Leads students to an awareness of the dramatic impulse in Western societies and to an understanding of the currents of thought and significant events which led to the development of particular forms of drama. Students investigate ways in which plays of particular periods were staged (and may now be staged) and apply acting skills and techniques to selected texts in order to realise these as theatre.
Staff: Assoc Prof J Lohrey
Unit weight: 12.5%
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Unit details [FPB]
Teaching pattern: 3 hrs weekly, lectures, tutorials, and practical sessions (13 wks)
Prereq: FPB101
Assess: participation in class activities (30%), practical and written assignments (70%)
Required: tba
Recommend: tba
Courses: [F3J] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Offered: Ltn: sem 1,
Unit description:
Students explore their potential for performance through the application of various techniques drawn from contemporary approaches to acting, voice production and movement. Students develop a heightened physical and vocal awareness; explore the possibilities within their own voice and free themselves from the restrictions of their habitual movement behaviours. Students discover and practice improvisation methods and theatre exercises in the exploration of the performer’s creative and expressive potential. The students are also introduced to the actor’s qualities of energy, commitment, enjoyment, freedom and development of confidence and courage.
Staff: Mr P Hammond (Coordinator), Mr M Edgar, Ms L Merritt
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 5 hrs weekly, practical sessions (13 wks)
Coreq: FPB105 Technical Theatre
Assess: participation in skills class activities (20%), practical and written assignments (80%)
Required: tba
Recommend: tba
Courses: [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Offered: Ltn: sem 2,
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Unit details [FPB]
Unit description:
Students explore the specific physical and vocal skills required for the demands of text and varying performance contexts. This exploration focuses on the objective of enlarging the realm of possibilities for each student as a communicator of emotion, ideas and meaning.
Specifically, students develop an ability to strengthen spinal support; to connect breath and movement and sound; to centre the natural voice; to free the channel of sound; to articulate clearly; to extend the range of the voice; to understand phonetics; and to convey the subtle nuances of thought and feeling present in text. The unit also introduces the
Stanislavski conceptions of action, given circumstances, sensory awareness, concentration, emotional memory, imagination and observation.
Staff: Mr P Hammond (Coordinator), Mr M Edgar, Ms L Merritt
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 5 hrs weekly, practical sessions (13 wks)
Prereq: FPB103 Theatre Skills 1
Assess: participation in class activities (20%), practical and written assignments (80%)
Required: tba
Recommend: tba
Courses: [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Offered: Ltn: sem 1,
Unit description:
Focuses on stage management and involves workshops, discussions and seminars concerning: responsibilities and channels of communication within each department and the overall production; duties and skills required by support staff, and organisational skills appropriate to the preparation and execution of each theatrical department. Each workshop/discussion session explores one or more facets of stage management. Students gain practice in the safety procedures of responsible theatre operation. Each student selects a technical role within a production and oversee all associated duties in the execution of that department.
Staff: Mr P Hammond
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 3 hrs weekly (13 wks)
Assess: production area on performance(/s) (70%), associated paperwork/prompt copy
(10%), written and practical assignments (20%)
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Unit details [FPB]
Required: tba
Recommend: tba
Courses: [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Offered: Ltn: sem 2,
Unit description:
Is conducted in two parts. The first concerns performance of a given playscript and offers opportunities to explore acting techniques as taught in Theatre Skills 1. The second part examines processes and procedures of lighting design. Emphasis is placed on instrumentation, accessories, electricity and the exploration of the artistic capabilities of using lighting instruments in order to verify methods and principles taught in theoretical sessions. Each student assists with the research, organisation, design, construction and/or realisation of a technical department within a production.
Staff: Assoc. Prof. J Lohrey, Ms L Merritt
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 4 wks block timetabled [equiv of 5 hrs weekly (13 wks)]
Prereq: FPB103 Theatre Skills 1, FPB105 Technical Theatre
Assess: participation in rehearsals and production and performances (60%), associated paperwork, written and practical assignments (40%)
Required: tba
Recommend: tba
Courses: [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Offered: Ltn: sem 1,
Unit description:
Students work in a number of technical or administrative roles to support the Classical
Performance production. They study the demands of various areas such as publicity,
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Unit details [FPB] bookings, sound production etc. Each student takes a major responsibility in one area as well as assisting in others.
Staff: Mr M Edgar
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: equiv of 3 hrs weekly, practical sessions (13 wks)
Prereq: FPB106 Performance and Production
Coreq: FPB202 Classical Performance
Assess: production logbook (20%), implementation of practical support role (80%)
Required: tba
Recommend: tba
Courses: [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Offered: Ltn: sem 1,
Unit description:
Students rehearse and present for public performance a production of a given classical text. ‘Classical’ in this context indicates a text which has achieved a substantial reputation and performance history and which provides a worthwhile acting challenge for a large number of students. The rehearsal process allows students to exercise and further develop skills learned in Year 1. It also enables them to learn good rehearsal technique and discipline and gives them the opportunity to develop skills in researching background material.
Staff: Mr M Edgar
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: equiv of 5 hrs weekly, practical sessions (13 wks)
Prereq: FPB104 Theatre Skills 2, FPB106 Performance and Production
Coreq: FPB201 Classical Production
Assess: participation in rehearsal process and public performance (60%) rehearsal and performance logbook (20%)
Required: tba
Recommend: tba
Courses: [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
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Unit details [FPB]
Offered: Ltn: sem 2,
Unit description:
Students rehearse and present for targeted public performance one or more small scale devised programs. Past productions in this area have included programs devised for the
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, pre-show foyer performances for Theatre North,
Nursing and Social Work conferences and programs for schools. It is expected that similar areas will be serviced in the future. Students gain experience in researching and shaping material for performance and in devising programs for non-theatrical spaces.
Staff: Mr M Edgar (Coordinator), Mr P Hammond
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: equiv of 3 hrs weekly, practical sessions (13 wks)
Prereq: FPB202 Classical Performance
Assess: participation in devising and rehearsing (40%), public performances (40%) plus annotated scripts (20%)
Required: tba
Recommend: tba
Courses: [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Offered: Ltn: sem 2,
Unit description:
Students explore the vocal resources required to respond to the demands of a variety of performance styles. The resonance and range of the voice are developed and the ability to use the factors of space, time, weight and rhythm in language extended to widen character performance choices. Students extend their movement possibilities through further establishing the physical text of a performance. The ability to create and investigate character from physical choices is explored. These physical and vocal skills are integrated into the preparation and performance of selected dramatic texts. Text analysis and approaches to interpretation further extend the theory and practice of acting. Various theatrical forms, devices and presentational modes are investigated.
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Unit details [FPB]
Staff: Mr P Hammond (Coordinator), Mr M Edgar, Ms L Merritt
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 5 hrs weekly, practical sessions (13 wks)
Prereq: FPB202 Classical Performance
Assess: participation in class activities (30%), practical and written assignments (70%)
Required: tba
Recommend: tba
Courses: [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Offered: Ltn: may be taken in sem 1 OR sem 2
Special note: restricted to BCA (Theatre) students
Unit description:
Each student assists with the research, organisation, design, construction, realisation and stage management of a major production. The unit is conducted through weekly tutorials and discussions on stage management techniques, front of house duties, and approaches to problem solving. Class content includes revision of basic stage management principles, prompt corner instrumentation, safety procedures, organisational skills, scheduling and running the rehearsal room, front of house management and promotion activities.
Students gain experience and practice in the research of an agreed and specific stage management portfolio.
Staff: Mr P Hammond
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 3 hrs weekly, tutorials & practical sessions (13 wks)
Prereq: FPB105 Technical Theatre
Assess: major role in one or more theatrical productions (80%) and associated paperwork/prompt copy (20%)
Required: tba
Recommend: tba
Courses: [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
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Unit details [FPB]
Offered: Ltn: sem 2
Special note: available as an elective to students in other courses
Unit description:
Addresses the communication needs of those students or intending professionals required to speak in the presentation context. Specific vocal and physical skills are experienced to assist the student in presenting in a dynamic and focussed way. A technique to rehearse the material for presentation is explored. Strategies to allow the presentation to reach the listeners with the intended impact are investigated. The means of addressing performance anxiety is covered and the transference of these skills into professional contexts is developed.
Staff: Ms L Merritt
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 3 hrs weekly, practical sessions (13 wks)
Assess: practical assignments (100%)
Required: tba
Recommend: tba
Courses: [F3J] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Offered: Ltn: sem 1
Unit description:
Is concerned with contemporary design and the role of the designer in the theatre as it may affect the stage in its various formations and configurations; formulating attitudes and approaches to finding the ‘core’ and ‘metaphor’, from which all artistic decisions concerning a production are made. Tutorial sessions cover the application of design principles for stage: line, shape, composition, colour, texture, space and the principles of harmony; contrast, variation, gradation, balance; movement, repetition, emphasis and rhythm. Students examine the process of text analysis through to the execution of a completed scale model and white model. Students also design, and assist in constructing the set for a production.
Staff: Mr P Hammond
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 3 hrs weekly, tutorials & practical sessions (13 wks)
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Unit details [FPB]
Prereq: normally FPB105
Assess: design and realisation of set for one or more productions (60%), accompanying designs and paperwork (40%)
Required: tba
Recommend: tba
Courses: [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Offered: Ltn: sem 2
Special note: restricted to BCA students
Unit description:
Emphasis is placed on the artistic capabilities of using theatre luminaires in order to verify methods and principles examined in seminars, workshops and theoretical sessions. Topics include lighting the event, the play, or dance performance, and standard drawing/documentation procedures of lighting design. Each student assists with the research, organisation, design, and realisation of a lighting design within a production or installation.
Staff: Mr P Hammond
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 3 hrs weekly, tutorials & practical sessions (13 wks)
Prereq:
Assess: design and realisation of one or more lighting designs (80%), associated lighting plans and plots (20%)
Required: tba
Recommend: tba
Courses: [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Offered: Ltn: sem 1
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Unit details [FPB]
Special note: restricted to BCA students
Unit description:
Is designed to heighten awareness of the essential elements of scriptwriting, characterisation, conflict, suspense, dialogue and subtext. The unit gives students the opportunity to write their own short scripts, including mimes, monologues and scenes.
These scripts are workshopped throughout the year with the aim of improving successive drafts which are finally assessed for their originality and skill in employing the elements of dramatic writing.
Staff: Mr P Hammond
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 3 hrs weekly, tutorials & practical sessions (13 wks)
Prereq: FPB101, FPB102
Assess: written assignments (80%), rehearsed play reading (20%)
Required: tba
Recommend: tba
Courses: [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Offered: Ltn: sem 1
Special note: restricted to BCA students
Unit description:
Develops the student’s vocal versatility through the experience of and skills development in multi media forms. Microphone technique and the skill of working to the camera is investigated. These skills are applied to specific industry contexts. Students research and experience the dynamic of the ‘voice over’; respond to the specific vocal and acting demands of the radio play; develop the vocal confidence required for taped readings of material ranging from a financial report to a literary work; and present a ‘stand-up’ to camera in documentary style.
Staff: Ms L Merritt
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 3 hrs weekly, practical sessions (13 wks)
Prereq:
Assess: participation in class activity (20%), practical assignments (80%)
Required: tba
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Unit details [FPB]
Recommend: tba
Courses: [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Offered: not offered in 2003
Special note: restricted to BCA students
Unit description:
Develops the techniques acquired in FPB103, FPB104, FPB204 Theatre Skills 1-3 for application to television and film and is concerned with the ways in which the television/film medium differs from that of Theatre. The unit concentrates on how the actor can best adjust the scale of his/her performance to the electronic media.
Staff: Assoc Prof J Lohrey (Coordinator), Mr A Grgas
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 3 hrs weekly, practical sessions (13 wks)
Prereq: FPB104 Theatre Skills 2
Assess: practical assignments (80%), participation in class activity (20%)
Required: tba
Recommend: tba
Courses: [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Offered: Ltn: sem 1
Unit description:
Each student is responsible for selecting base resource materials or playscript for performance and then overseeing the entire production and staging process through to, and including, presentation of the finished product. Lectures and workshops on key issues within the director’s portfolio are included: auditions, setting up of support structures, organisational strategies, qualities of leadership and rehearsal techniques.
Staff: Mr P Hammond
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Unit details [FPB]
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: 6 hrs weekly, tutorials, workshops & practical sessions (13 wks)
Prereq: FPB204 Theatre Skills 3, FPB203 Devised Performance
Assess: selection, casting, rehearsal and production of a one-act play (80%); director’s portfolio (20%)
Required: tba
Recommend: tba
Courses: [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Offered: Ltn: sem 2
Unit description:
Classes are conducted as rehearsals of a chosen playscript directed by the lecturer.
Students are expected to apply techniques learnt in FPB103, FPB104, FPB204 Theatre Skills
1, 2 and 3 to the creation of the production and rehearsal of their role(/s). Students are also expected to take part in discussions on the playscript and to be asked to contribute to design and production decisions and assist in a technical department in order to realise elements of the production.
Staff: Mr P Hammond
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: 6 hrs weekly, practical sessions (13 wks)
Prereq: FPB204 Theatre Skills 3, FPB203 Devised Performance
Assess: participation in rehearsal, production and performance (80%) plus annotated scripts (20%)
Required: tba
Recommend: tba
Courses: [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
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