MATSEC AM Theatre and Performance case studies
MATSEC AM Theatre and Performance · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The MATSEC Advanced Level in Theatre and Performance is a Maltese post-secondary qualification for students who want to study theatre at university level or build a serious creative practice. It suits candidates who are willing to work both on paper and on the floor: you will be asked to think like a theatre historian, a dramaturg, an actor, a deviser and a critic, often within the same course. The MATSEC AM Theatre and Performance case studies are 5 cases and about 4,136 words.
1Antigone in a Valletta Courtyard: Masks, Chorus and Dusk
You are directing a 75-minute adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone for a national student theatre festival. The performance is in a historic Valletta courtyard: stone flagstones, no fly tower, a low upstage wall, and audience seated on three sides at ground level.
760 words, about 4 min2Cutting a Three-Act Realist Play to 95 Minutes Without New Dialogue
You are dramaturg on a 95-minute festival production of a three-act realist play written in 1879. The full text runs about 2 hours 50 minutes.
791 words, about 4 min3Laughter at a Tragic Moment and Vocal Fatigue in a Reflective Studio
You are the director of a two-hander in a 120-seat studio. One actor, playing a bereaved father, has received consistent laughs at the moment he reveals his son's death.
831 words, about 4 min4Verbatim Consent and Ensemble Conflict in a Devised Housing Project
You are facilitating a devised piece with eight performers, aged 17-19, for a 40-minute slot at a community arts festival. The source material is 14 interviews with residents of a housing estate facing redevelopment.
823 words, about 4 min5Four Locations, Eleven Quick Changes and an Accessible Route in a Black Box
You are designing set and lighting for a 70-minute promenade-style production in a black-box studio with 80 seats on two sides and a central playing strip 7m by 3m. The ceiling is 3.2m; the fire officer has banned haze and open flame.
931 words, about 5 min