Theatre and Performance

Leading theatre performers make the craft seem effortless. These two units build on one another, offering a practical exploration of foundational performance skills, including movement, voice and space, in diverse performance contexts.

These units are part of the Theatre and Performance major

The theatre machine is a device to make sense of the world, generating meaningful experiences for audiences. It's a complex system, balancing diverse artistic forms, media and technologies. Explore this machine from the perspective of the design and technology that goes into a production.

This unit is part of the Theatre and Performance major

This unit explores the ways that dramatic texts ‘speak’ as documents for performance. By engaging with a number of texts, both classical and contemporary, you will encounter the range of interpretive practices that move the text from page to stage, while developing your own interpretive performances.

This unit is part of the Theatre and Performance major

In your final year you'll study two units dedicated to the development, rehearsal and presentation of two theatre productions.

In Directed Theatre Project you will receive expert direction to develop, design, rehearse and perform a full length theatre production. This capstone unit will stretch your practice across a range of theatrical crafts and skillsets, including stage management, technical theatre, and of course, performance.

These units are part of the Theatre and Performance major

Examine the evolving relationship between theatre and technology. Through a blend of critical scholarship and practice, involving the examination, analysis, and interpretation of theatre texts, performances and theories, you'll engage with complex issues of privacy, internet cultures, and digital identity.

This unit is part of the Theatre and Performance major

Harness the elements of drama. Through rehearsal, workshops, and exercises, you'll learn the principles of dramatic composition and engaging storytelling.

This unit is available as an elective

This unit introduces you to foundational methods and traditions of movement for the performer. You will explore improvisation, the activation of imagination and play, and the creation of original solo and ensemble non-verbal performance pieces.

This unit is available as an elective

Through practical workshops, discussions, readings and individual dramaturgical sessions, you will explore the range of styles, genres, conventions, purposes and methodologies within writing for performance, and approaches to character development and script structure.

This unit is available as an elective

In the major, explore interdisciplinary knowledge and skills that underpin the development of sustainable societies and solutions. Informed by international and local research, practice, and theory, this major allows you to develop specialist expertise across the physical and social sciences and humanities, emphasising student-led and problem-based learning.

It provides the frameworks for developing sustainability-oriented solutions in a range of fields and is relevant to a wide range of careers.

Leading theatre performers make the craft seem effortless. These two units build on one another, offering a practical exploration of foundational performance skills, including movement, voice and space, in diverse performance contexts.

These units are part of the Theatre and Performance major

The theatre machine is a device to make sense of the world, generating meaningful experiences for audiences. It's a complex system, balancing diverse artistic forms, media and technologies. Explore this machine from the perspective of the design and technology that goes into a production.

This unit is part of the Theatre and Performance major

This unit explores the ways that dramatic texts ‘speak’ as documents for performance. By engaging with a number of texts, both classical and contemporary, you will encounter the range of interpretive practices that move the text from page to stage, while developing your own interpretive performances.

This unit is part of the Theatre and Performance major

In your final year you'll study two units dedicated to the development, rehearsal and presentation of two theatre productions.

In Directed Theatre Project you will receive expert direction to develop, design, rehearse and perform a full length theatre production. This capstone unit will stretch your practice across a range of theatrical crafts and skillsets, including stage management, technical theatre, and of course, performance.

These units are part of the Theatre and Performance major

Examine the evolving relationship between theatre and technology. Through a blend of critical scholarship and practice, involving the examination, analysis, and interpretation of theatre texts, performances and theories, you'll engage with complex issues of privacy, internet cultures, and digital identity.

This unit is part of the Theatre and Performance major

Harness the elements of drama. Through rehearsal, workshops, and exercises, you'll learn the principles of dramatic composition and engaging storytelling.

This unit is available as an elective

This unit introduces you to foundational methods and traditions of movement for the performer. You will explore improvisation, the activation of imagination and play, and the creation of original solo and ensemble non-verbal performance pieces.

This unit is available as an elective

Through practical workshops, discussions, readings and individual dramaturgical sessions, you will explore the range of styles, genres, conventions, purposes and methodologies within writing for performance, and approaches to character development and script structure.

This unit is available as an elective