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Encountering Theatre - Week 11

Updated: Dec 16, 2019


Lesson was based for essay guidance


- Plan ahead and start work early

- Double space all the work

- Title dates in italics

- Use Paragraphs

- Leave Name OFF work for anonymous marking

- Avoid generalising statements that repeat the essay task

- Be specific and make sure you are doing everything required

- Structure

o Introduction

Outlines important information and context

Gives Key definitions

Gives reader sense of your argument ideas

o Main body of essay

Scene 1 – Describe, explain, analyse

Scene 2 – Describe, Explain, analyse

o Conclusion

‘So what question’

· Why does this matter? What are the larger issues at stake

Don’t just summarize try to synthesize

- Use Library Catalogue

- Task: Discuss your ideas about possible sources for you essays in relation to the performances seen in this term

o What key terms can you use to research

- Referencing

o Harvard referencing style

o To acknowledge the work and ideas of others

o Show credibility and reliability

o Demonstrating good research process

o Allows reader to check themselves

o Include page numbers after quotations

o Use bibliography at the end of the essay

o Plagiarism is not good

o It is also possible to plagiarise yourself

o Plagiarism is cheating


- Material Analysis – taking into account the conditions of the piece

- Semiotics

- intersectionality


Fat Blokes – Scottee (South-Bank Centre)

First scene

- Strip tease

o Red light

o Physicality

o Fridges

o Music

o The response of the audience and the collateral response of Scottee to the said humor

- Demographic talk

o Composition of the audience

o Part of the performance

o Two types of discrimination both on fat communities and LGBT

o Getting an idea of the people in the audience


Second scene

- Moral High Ground

- Health opinions

o the dance ending with headless actors using shirts possible resemblance of the healthcare services removing the choices of fat people in making decisions on their own body

o Eating a banana not unhealthy food

o Use health related research to backup and combat ´


What is live art in relation to theatre?

Southbank’s relation to live art

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