Introduction to Performing Arts Management

Students who complete this course should acquire the following course-specific skills:

- Demonstrate a detailed knowledge of the nature, conditions and traditions of local theatre in Singapore.

- Gain a strong understanding of the expansive history of local theatre, particularly the function of key industry bodies, decision makers and institutions within the local theatre art world.

- Develop keener insights into the technical and production principles and processes in local theatre.

- Ability to discuss current financial planning issues and strategies as they relate to the management of local performing arts organisations.

- Obtain foundational knowledge of the various forms and functions of theatricality, textuality and performativity, particularly in a local context acquire knowledge of a range of elements, tools, subjects, processes, stagecraft, techniques and styles associated with local theatre.

- Be equipped with a set of critical vocabularies to confidently analyse, discuss and debate the inherently diverse features and qualities of texts produced by our local theatre art world.

- Obtain practical knowledge of different documentation styles, and their practical implications including framing ideas, narrative techniques, and issues of fairness and objectivity.