Course Catalogue

Writing For Performance THEATRE4016

  • Academic Session: 2025-26
  • School: School of Culture and Creative Arts
  • Credits: 30
  • Level: Level 4 (SCQF level 10)
  • Typically Offered: Runs Throughout Semesters 1 and 2
  • Available to Visiting Students: Yes
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No
  • Curriculum For Life: No

Short Description

The course investigates approaches towards contemporary writing-for-performance through practice and discursive methods. It provides students with the opportunity to explore and develop their own writing-for-performance practice through an individual project.

Timetable

10 x 3 hour seminars/workshops

2 x individual tutorials of 30mins

Requirements of Entry

Entry into Theatre Studies Honours

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

■ Performance script: playtime approx. 20 mins (50%)

■ Proposal: 1500 words (20%)

■ Critical Reflection: 2500 words (30%)

Are reassessment opportunities available for all summative assessments? Not applicable

It is the default expectation that all courses will offer opportunities for reassessment or deferred assessment. Where it is not possible to offer this in some assessment components, the grade achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade, and any exceptions for this course are described below.

[No exceptions]

Course Aims

The course aims to:

■ Increase students' awareness and understanding of the role and function of writing for performance in a variety of contexts.

■ Introduce students to practical approaches to writing for live performance, and to equip them with the skills and techniques required to develop and execute their ideas.

■ Encourage students to develop an analytical approach towards writing for performance.

■ Enable students to explore and express a specific 'playwriting' interest in considerable depth (through individual projects).

■ Encourage students to develop a critically informed writing-for-performance practice.

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Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of the course students will be able to:

■ Show evidence of having developed practical approaches to writing for performance and will have acquired the skills necessary to explore, communicate and realise their ideas.

■ Analyse and interpret elements of the writer's craft and apply this understanding to finding and assessing their own approaches towards writing for performance.

■ Utilise an understanding of the contribution made to a piece of live performance by the writer in a range of contexts.

■ Show evidence of having developed a critically informed writing practice.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

No exceptions