Requisites: Pre-requisite: Equivalent SCQF Level 9 modules in Acting

This module allows you to extend your experience and development of acting at a higher level, providing you with experience in a simulated professional environment. You will be required to develop, play and sustain a character and narrative in intensive rehearsal and performance process.Your work in this trimester will consist of rehearsing for one project with associated voice, acting and movement work to support it depending on your own, the group?s and the projects? needs. The rehearsals and classes will approach professional conditions with shorter timescales and working towards a finished and professional standard performance. The project will be technically, intellectually and emotionally more challenging than those in earlier years. Your understanding and knowledge of the work will be extended by your increased experience, and your technical, acting vocal and movement skills will be further developed by practice and teaching.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Create and sustain a sophisticated performance in a project for public performance, drawing on a range of analytical and practical sources.

LO2: Successfully develop a performance in a simulated professional environment, working successfully with qualified professional practitioners.

LO3: Demonstrate significantly enhanced acting, vocal, movement and technical skills in responding to a director’s interpretation of a text.

LO4: Work in realistic timescales to create a public performance in simulated professional circumstances.

LO5: Demonstrate a sophisticated and inclusive research methodology appropriate to practice-based work.