This four-week intensive module (6 hours per week of contact time) enables you to build on the basic writing-and-development skills learned in Playwriting for the Marketplace and on your exploration of a variety of modes of writing in Form and Realisation by working directly with professional writers. While the other modules will be taught by academic staff members with specialisms in playwriting, this module will be delivered in partnership with a professional playwright or playwrights. The Programme Leader will each year establish a thematically cohesive sequence of practitioner visits: for example, one writer in residence for four weeks, or two writers for two weeks each. You will work toward a longer piece of writing (5000-6000 words) or a portfolio of shorter works totalling that length. Workshop sessions will be timetabled so that students can continue to develop their work outside of taught sessions. You will have the option of presenting your work from this module in the departmental theatre festival to be held at the end of the summer term.
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Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Spring Term 2021-22 |
The aims of the module are:
By the end of the module you will be expected:
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework 6000 word script |
N/A | 100 |
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Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework 6000 word script |
N/A | 100 |
Students will receive written feedback on their summative work within the 20-working day University feedback policy, with an option of an individual follow-up meeting if any aspect of the feedback is unclear to the student or if more guidance on interpreting the feedback is requested.
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Cole, Toby. Playwrights on Playwriting: The Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco. New York: Hill & Wang, 1961.
Goode, Chris. The Forest and the Field: Changing Theatre in a Changing World. London: Oberon, 2014.
Jester, Caroline, and Caridad Svich (eds.). Fifty Playwrights on their Craft. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
Tichler, Rosemarie, and Barry Jay Kaplan. The Playwright at Work. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2012.
Sweet, Jeffrey. What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.