Module Specification

Module Title: Module Code: PX7003 Module Leader:

Devised Project Level:7

Credit:30

ECTS credit: 15

Pre-requisite: Pre-cursor:

Co-requisite: Excluded combinations : Suitable for incoming study abroad? No

Location of delivery: UEL/Other/By distance learning (please delete as appropriate)

If ‘Other’ please insert location here:

Summary of module for applicants:

Students will develop an understanding of the skills of devising and work in collaboration with an external cultural
organisations, such as a museum, to create a new performance work for an external audience. To develop a range of
skills required to devise theatre collaboratively

To develop an understanding of how both devised and text-based scenes work

Main topics of study:

Lectures, seminars and practical workshops examining the following areas:

 Ways into devising

 Collaborative performance practices
 Creating performance work from stimulus such as archive
 Working with producing partners
 Performance
This module will be able to demonstrate at least one of the following examples/ exposures

(please tick one or more of the appropriate boxes, evidence will need to be provided later in this document)

Live, applied project

Company/engagement visits

Company/industry sector endorsement/badging/sponsorship/award

Learning Outcomes for the module

Please use the appropriate headings to group the Learning Outcomes. While it is expected that a module will have
LOs covering a range of knowledge and skills, it is not necessary that all four headings are covered in every module.
Please delete any headings that are not relevant. You should number the LOs sequentially to enable mapping of
assessment tasks.

Where a LO meets one of the UEL core competencies, please put a code next to the LO that links to the competence.

 Digital Proficiency - Code = (DP)

 Industry Connections - Code = (IC)
 Emotional Intelligence Development - Code = (EID)
 Social Intelligence Development - Code = (SID)
 Physical Intelligence Development - Code = (PID)
 Cultural Intelligence Development - Code = (CID)
 Community Connections - Code = (CC)
 UEL Give-Back - Code = (UGB)
 Cognitive Intelligence – Code = (COI)

At the end of this Module, students will be able to:

Knowledge

1. Articulate different methodologies and approaches to contemporary performance making(COI)

Thinking Skills

2. Reflect on theoretical issues in their evaluation of the contemporary performance process(COI)(CID)

3. Critically engage with different approaches to contemporary devising performance(IC)
4. Solve complex problems, identify and evaluate options and review decisions(CID)(EID)
5. Evaluate and integrate theory and practice in a wide range of situations(IC)(CID)
6. Demonstrate initiative and originality in realising devised scenes (IC)(COI) (CID) (SID)

Subject-based practical Skills

7. Devise theatre collaboratively (PID)(IC) (COI) (CID) (EID)(SID)

8. Create theatre in response to stimulus such as archive for an external audience(PID)(CID) (EID) (IC)(COI)(SID)

Skills for life and work (general skills)

9. Critically assess their own performance work as well as that of others. (COI)(CID) (EID)

10. Engage confidently in academic and professional discourse (IC) (EID) (COI)

Teaching/ learning methods/strategies used to enable the achievement of learning outcomes:

For on campus students:

A combination of lecture, seminar and acting workshops/training sessions.

Assessment methods which enable students to Weighting: Learning Outcomes

demonstrate the learning outcomes for the module; demonstrated:
please define as necessary:

CW1 Practice Portfolio (136.5 hours) 65%

1, 4, 5, 6, 7,8.

2, 3, 9, 10
CW2 Critical Reflection (2000 words) 35%

Reading and resources for the module:

These must be up to date and presented in correct Harvard format unless a Professional Body specifically requires a
different format

Core

Govan, Nicholson & Normington (2007) Making a Performance – Devising Histories and Contemporary Practices
London: Routledge

Milling, J. & Heddon, D. (2015) Devising Performance – A Critical History London: Palgrave

Recommended

Etchells, Tim (2000) Certain Fragments Text and Writings on Performance London: Routledge

Greig, Noel (2005) Playwriting London: Routledge

Bogart, Anne (2001) A Director Prepares London: Routledge

Clements, Paul (1993) The Improvised Play:The Work of Mike Leigh London: Methuen

Etchells, Tim (2000) Certain Fragments Text and Writings on Performance London: Routledge

Johnstone, Chris (1998) House of Games: Making Theatre for Everyday Life London: Nick Hern Books

Linklater, Kirstin (1994) Freeing the Natural Voice Quite Specific Media Group

Oddey, Alison (1994) Devising:A Practical and Theoretical Handbook London:Routledge

Pisk, Litz (1998) The Actor and His Body London: Methuen

Spolin, Viola (2000) Improvisation for the Theatre Illiinois: North Western University Press

Zinder, David Body-Voice-Imagination: A Training for the Actor

Bibliography In Greek

Bogart, A. (2020) Το Βιβλίο των Viewpoints: Πρακτικός οδηγός των Viewpoints και της σύνθεσης Αθήνα: Πατάκης
Brecht, B. (2015) Μικρό όργανο για το Θέατρο Αθήνα: Θεμέλιο

Johnstone, K. (2011) Impro Ο αυτοσχεδιασμός στο θέατρο Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Οκτώ

Provide evidence of how this module will be able to demonstrate at least one of the following examples/ exposures

Live, applied project

Company/engagement visits

Company/industry sector endorsement/badging/sponsorship/award

Indicative Activity
learning and
teaching time

(10 hrs per

credit):

1. Activity: (e.g. lectures/seminars/tutorials/workshops/studio work/moderated online discussions,

Student/tutor online chat etc)
contact time:

A combination of informal lecture/seminar, workshops and tutorials.

66 hours

2. Student Activity: (e.g. seminar reading and preparation/assignment preparation/ background reading/ on-
learning time: line activities/group work/portfolio/diary etc)

234 hours Seminar reading, weekly writing, group work, portfolio development

Total hours (1 300 hours

and 2):