PUBLIC PRODUCTIONS - 2025/6

Module Overview

This module is in many ways the culmination of all the previous work undertaken throughout the students' training, drawing upon the wide range of skills developed through levels 4 and 5.

Module provider

Guildford School of Acting

Module Leader

BESSELL Jaq (GSA)

Number of Credits: 60

ECTS Credits: 30

Framework: FHEQ Level 6

Module cap (Maximum number of students): N/A

Module Availability

Year long

Prerequisites / Co-requisites

N/A

Module content

• Mid scale season - rehearsals and performances


• Large scale season - rehearsals and performances


• Showcase - rehearsals and performance.

Assessment pattern

Alternative Assessment

N/A

Assessment Strategy

The assessment strategy is designed to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate:

1. Embodied skills in acting, movement and voice to a professional standard.


2. A sophisticated knowledge and understanding of a performance text, through research and analysis.


3. Imaginative and embodied offers in rehearsals and performances.


4. Self-discipline and consistency of approach in a professional context.


5. Collaborative and autonomous working practices within the creative process, in a professional context.


6. Application of a range of rehearsal and performance techniques in live and recorded formats, including theatre, screen and recorded voice.


7. An understanding of the individual's professional profile within the acting and creative industries.

Thus, the summative assessment for this module consists of:

• Continuous assessment: Mid-Scale Season: (this addresses 1,2,3,4 and 5 above)


• Continuous assessment: Large-Scale Season: (this addresses 1,2,3,4,and 5 above)


• Performance assessment: Showcase (this addresses 1, 6 and 7, above)

Formative assessment: Students will receive regular formative verbal feedback from directors and tutors as part of the rehearsal process.

Module aims

• Provide students with opportunities to apply embodied acting skills in a professional context.
• Facilitate research and analysis of a performance text to a professional standard.
• Provide opportunities for students to contribute to and collaborate within a professional rehearsal context.
• Provide opportunities to build and practice self-discipline within a professional context.
• Foster a professional, creative process that recognizes and values both collaborative and autonomous working practices.
• Employ a range of rehearsal and performance techniques in live and recorded formats, including theatre, screen and recorded voice
• Foster an understanding of the individual's professional profile within the acting and creative industries.

Learning outcomes

Methods of Teaching / Learning

The learning and teaching strategy is designed to:

• Allow students to apply embodied skills in acting, movement and voice in a professional rehearsal context, to achieve work of a professional standard.


• Facilitate research to gain a sophisticated knowledge and understanding of a performance text.


• Model an imaginative and embodied approach to rehearsals and performances.


• Use industry practices to encourage students to apply self-discipline and consistency of approach when working in a professional context.


• Model collaborative and autonomous working practices within a creative process which is in line with industry practice.


• Employ a range of rehearsal and performance techniques in live and recorded formats, including theatre, screen and recorded voice.


• Enable an understanding of the individual's professional profile within the acting and creative industries.

Indicated Lecture Hours (which may also include seminars, tutorials, workshops and other contact time) are approximate and may include in-class tests where one or more of these are an assessment on the module. In-class tests are scheduled/organised separately to taught content and will be published on to student personal timetables, where they apply to taken modules, as soon as they are finalised by central administration. This will usually be after the initial publication of the teaching timetable for the relevant semester.

Reading list

https://readinglists.surrey.ac.uk
Upon accessing the reading list, please search for the module using the module code: ACT3019

Other information

Guildford School of Acting trains students, within their chosen fields, to have an understanding and appreciation of Employability, Digital Capabilities, Global and Cultural Capabilities, Sustainability, and Resourcefulness and Resilience. This module is designed to allow acting students to develop knowledge, skills, and capabilities in the following areas:

Employability

The focus on employability is embedded in the teaching, learning and assessment activities throughout every aspect of this module to nurture career ready graduates that will be sought after by employers in the creative industries. Expert staff with practitioner backgrounds and guest freelance creatives deliver authentic and practical modes of working in the studio, mirroring professional practice. Students develop transferable skills including independent and collaborative working, creative, critical and reflective thinking, and problem solving.

Digital Capabilities

Throughout the module students will be required to engage with digital technologies to develop their digital literacy, to support their learning journey. Students will use specialist software to create digital and promotional content, and they will use a range of sharing platforms and social media to share this content with industry professionals and creative peers as appropriate. Students will also use traditional software and other digital technologies to undertake communication, administration, and planning.

Global & Cultural Capabilities

Throughout the module, students will develop their global, social, historical, and cultural awareness, share experiences and knowledge from their own backgrounds and cultures,¿and appreciate, recognise and interpret diverse perspectives. With an open mind and a willingness to engage in discussion, students will develop awareness and appreciate, recognise and interpret diverse perspectives in the characters and communities they will be portraying as actors-in-training. Students will be able to make informed contributions to the current debates in the creative industries.

Resourcefulness & Resilience

In this module the learning journey is carefully structured so that performance and rehearsal skills can be developed, resulting in students acquiring a broad range of resources which they can continue to use throughout the rest of their training and in future employment settings. The nature of the work means students will learn to navigate uncertainty, to deal with risks and challenges, and to take on board personal and professional responsibilities. The use of formative and summative feedback will enable the students to build a thorough overview of their individual process and progress. The training features independent and collaborative learning, problem solving, communication, perseverance, stamina, critical thinking, self-management, and an understanding of self-value. Mirroring industry standards students will undertake rehearsals and performance schedules which are in line with expectations for a successful acting career.

Sustainability

Throughout rehearsals, students are encouraged to reflect on the social,¿cultural,¿ethical, political, economic, and environmental impact of the work they do as individuals and collectively, and to recognise their shared responsibilities. GSA has a strong commitment to working from the studio in the most sustainable way possible. Movement directors and intimacy coordinators allow students to work in a sustained safe physical manner commensurate with rigors of professional delivery.

Programmes this module appears in

Please note that the information detailed within this record is accurate at the time of publishing and may be subject to change. This record contains information for the most up to date version of the programme / module for the 2025/6 academic year.