Topics in Theatre Research (DRAM3103)
Information valid for Semester 2, 2016
Course level
Undergraduate
Faculty
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
School
Communication & Arts School
Units
2
Duration
One Semester
Delivery mode
Internal
Class hours
2 Seminar hours
Prerequisite
DRAM1010 + #8 from Drama Major Course List
Recommended prerequisite
DRAM2030
Restricted
Students should be in their final semester or two of their Drama Major to enrol in this compulsory capstone course.
Assessment methods
Participation, Presentation, Essay
Course enquiries
Current course offerings
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Course description
Compulsory Third Year Course (Capstone). As its name suggests, this course examines theatre's engagement with themes of violence and conflict, and theatre's subsequent potential to affect its audiences viscerally. Moving backwards and forwards through time, we trace our way though some of the most extreme plays in the canon, touching on Roman theatre, Renaissance theatre, the nineteenth-century gothic, sensational melodramas, and contemporary iterations of violence on stage, to investigate how certain tropes and approaches have reoccurred or changed over time. Students will read accompanying critical theory and will have the opportunity to develop their own individual research projects. This course aims to deepen students' understanding of the development of some of the more provocative elements of Western theatre history, while consolidating their research skills.