Exploring theatre and performance studies

In this unit you will investigate the questions: What does theatre and performance do and how does theatre and performance help us understand and creatively engage our world? We will ask and answer these questions by exploring how theatre and performance practice in the arts (tools including as performing, directing, writing and design) and performance theory (tools for understanding and creatively engaging) inform each other. You will explore key concepts such as ‘ritual’ and ‘myth’, ‘embodied knowing,’ ‘performativity’, ‘liveness’, ‘affect’ and ‘intersectionality’ and their application to performance practice. You will work together to apply your explorations in theory and practice to a range of contexts such as identity, community and culture, enterprise and economics, social relations, politics, and futures.