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. In particular, students will actively engage with the empirical challenges and operational issues faced by arts managers in the performing arts in Singapore today, so as to illuminate how they inform our sense of value, experiences of live productions, shifting audience behavior and culture in deep, surprising ways.
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.