English and drama

Theatre for Changing Times

Module code: Q3004
Level 5
15 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Seminar
Assessment modes: Coursework

The module explores how drama, theatre and performance reflect and effect social change. You’ll think about the relationship of the individual and the community in relation to wider social or institutional structures.

The module brings together historical perspectives about drama, theatre and performance and urgent issues in the present. Key skills you’ll gain include:

• working with theatre texts
• historical understanding
• critical analysis about social and cultural change.

 

Module learning outcomes

• Reflect critically on how theatre reflects and effects social change
• Demonstrate how historical forms of theatre relate to urgent issues in the present
• Analyse theatre texts in their wider social and political context