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EN4430   Making Performance

Academic year(s): 2025-2026

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 30

ECTS credits : 15

Level : SCQF level 10

Semester: 2

Availability restrictions: Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable: 10.00 am - 12.00 noon Fri

The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have seen a broad range of radical approaches to the task of making performance. This module will explore a range of these approaches, which may include physical theatre, theatres of cruelty, puppetry and mask, psychophysical performance and situationism. Through practical workshops, students will explore intersections of theory and practice, developing their skills as researchers and makers of performance. Students will be introduced to a diverse range of performance practices developed by British and European theatre makers throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Through tutor-led workshops, they will explore the relationships between theory and practice, and interrogate ways in which innovative approaches to performance-making have shaped contemporary dramatic output. Students will develop their research skills through set-reading and independent study, as well as working together to produce practical performance pieces using techniques encountered on the course.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisite(s): Before taking this module you must pass EN2003 and pass EN2004

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: 2 hours of lectures and workshops, and 2 x optional consultative hours.

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews: 60% Coursework 40% Exam


Re-assessment: 100% Exam

Personnel

Module coordinator: Dr J S F Haddow
Module teaching staff: Dr Sam Haddow (JSFH)
Module coordinator email jsfh@st-andrews.ac.uk

Intended learning outcomes

  • Demonstrate knowledge of major trends in European performance making through the 20th and 21st centuries.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the intersections between theory and practice in different strategies for making performance.
  • Evaluate different approaches to performance making, both critically and per form.
  • Collaborate with others in producing a piece of theatre.