ATS3188 · The story and the stage

Overview

In this unit you will engage with storytelling traditions from a range of cultural backgrounds and critically examine the relationship between these traditions and theatrical practice. This includes entering into deeper relationships with various cultural contexts including First Nations, Classical and Medieval European contexts, as well as East and South East Asian performance forms. You will discern between practices founded in ritual / religion and those based in the profane, while developing a practical understanding of the relationship between storyteller and performer. Through practice-based activities, you will actively explore this relationship as a way of developing a greater understanding of the evolution and history of theatrical practice. This will include the creation and presentation of works based on the practices and traditions encountered in the unit, and advancing your learning in a practical way by applying it within contemporary cultural contexts.

Areas of study: Theatre and performance

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. identify conventions of storytelling and theatre within the context of various cultural traditions;
2. analyse similarities, differences and historical relationships between performance for efficacy (ritual) and performance for entertainment (profane);
3. apply storytelling and theatrical conventions through individual presentation;
4. work collaboratively in applying key concepts of storytelling and theatrical practice to performance;
5. reflect critically upon storytelling and theatrical traditions through the creation of a proposal relating how this practice might be applied within contemporary cultures.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.