This module is designed as a practical foundation and aims to provide students with a working knowledge of key processes, practices and principles within performing arts management and the established industry conventions. Through a unique blend of conceptual frameworks, professional insight and experiential learning, students will gain insights into the practical and conceptual competencies required to produce, troubleshoot and sustain live productions; from formalistic considerations, operational models to institutional arrangements and related arts management principles.
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.
Students developed a proposal for a theatre production that is adapted from an older local theatre production, within a set budget.