Artistic Production 1

Artistic Production 1 - TEA1100 is composed of both practical work and theoretical work. The practical work is 80% of the course and theory and reflection is 20%. 

Practical Work

Each week, the students are given practical tasks to make short scenes that are performed for the class, school, and teachers to see.Each practical task is coordinated with and related to the work in Acting Skills and builds competence in devising methods. The practical tasks give the student a place to apply and refine their acting skills in a creative task. The short scenes form the basis of evaluating the student’s weekly progress and are a point of critical reflection on the theory and practice of artistic production.

At the start of the year, tasks focus on making short scenes where students learn how to use space, physical behaviour, action and reaction and motivation to build up a situation. These tasks explore the dramaturgy of creating places, situations, the use of timing, levels of play, scales of reaction, physicality, playing with masks, elements, materials, and animals. The tasks address the question of how to create interesting situations between characters.  It poses the constituents of dramatic action: time, place, and action. Where are we? Who is there? What do they want? What do they do? What happens? And what is the result?

In the second term tasks are given to make narrative structures that tell a longer story in different locations. The student explores using different sources for creating short pieces. For example, short stories, historical events, paintings, news reports, objects. The final and longer task of the year is an exam task. The students are asked to make an original play based on a period of immersive observation of a real-life chosen place. For example, an old people's home, a restaurant, a church, a children's school, refugee educational centre, a local bar etc.

All practical work is accompanied by feedback and critical reflection on both the artistic work and the work process involved.

Theory classes introduce the student to dramaturgy, theatre history, critical reading of primary sources, critical thinking, cultural and social history.  There is a strong emphasis giving the students a broad cultural and intellectual capital so they can actively participate in artistic and social debates both as actors and citizens.