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PERF316 Playwriting

10 cp
Prerequisites 10 cp from 200-level unit in Drama, Incompatible PERF204 Playwriting
Teaching Organisation 12 week-semester or equivalent in intensive block mode. This unit will include rehearsals, lectures, workshops, performances, screenings, and web-enhanced learning.

This unit focuses on the craft of writing for performance and the discipline of playwriting, including examinations of styles, genres, conventions, structures and methodologies. It will also include an examination of theatre forms and theatre writers as well as a practical focus on the development of the students’ own skills in writing for performance, dramaturgy, evaluating works-in-progress, and responding to feedback as part of the ongoing process of developing a script.

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