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DRAM2017 Acting Skills: Character Creation, Improvisation and Performance 2

Later Year Course

Offered By School of Cultural Inquiry
Academic Career Undergraduate
Course Subject Drama/Theatre Studies
Offered in DRAM2017 will not be offered in 2012
Unit Value 3 units
Course Description

Each week the Clinical School provides a detailed character history and presenting complaint to each student. The student learns the history and presents himself to the Clinical School at the Canberra Hospital where he is interviewed by a second year medical student. In this unit the history will be enlivened by detailed emotional states which the medical students will have to overcome in order to create a coherent patient history.

Learning Outcomes A practical understanding of the process of character improvisation within given circumstances using imaginative and spontaneous responses.
Indicative Assessment

Written analysis (50%) and performance (50%).

Workload Offered annually. One two-hour workshop per week.
Areas of Interest Drama
Requisite Statement

DRAM1005 and DRAM1006

Recommended Courses DRAM1005 or DRAM1006
Prescribed Texts Cole, T., Ed. Acting, A Handbook of the Stanislavski System, Crown, N.Y.

The information published on the Study at ANU 2012 website applies to the 2012 academic year only. All information provided on this website replaces the information contained in the Study at ANU 2011 website.

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