There are no pre-requisites for this module to be added

This module focuses on launching your professional career, along with creating and potentially presenting work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Working from your reflective analysis and tutor feedback of the preview production you will seek to develop and enhance the production to a professional standard and present your work publicly at the Fringe Festival, working to bridge your experience as a training director into the world of professional work. Meeting with your tutor in the early stages, you will outline a development plan and rehearsal schedule, production/tech schedules and marketing plan. The module is tutorial based where your development of the production will be reviewed by your tutor in dialogue with the opportunity to seek guidance on the written aspects of the module.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Exercise an ability to lead a company with confidence and vision.

LO2: Evaluate and produce a range of advanced strategies for marketing and networking in a professional capacity, and demonstrate an extensive knowledge of how small companies/individual directors work within a professional context.

LO3: Conceptualise and critically explore a clear artistic vision and an original point of view in collaborative discussions with writers, designers and funding organisations.

LO4: Critically assess complex artistic issues and resolve with informed judgements under tight deadline requirements.

LO5: Critically engage with a range of principles and concepts in theatre production, and to place work comparatively in a specific context.