What you'll learn

• Specialised knowledge of histories, forms, and traditions of writing for stand-up comedy/performance poetry as well as the cultural contexts of innovative practitioners and practices within stand-up comedy/performance poetry; of contemporary critical, analytical, and narrative theories of stand-up comedy/performance poetry;
• detailed understanding of key performance components within the discipline, to include: ideational sources, body, space, image, sound, text, movement, environment.
• dramaturgical and script-editing skills within stand-up comedy/performance poetry
• developed advanced self-management skills to include working in planned and improvisatory ways, as well as the ability to anticipate and accommodate change, ambiguity, creative risk-taking, uncertainty and unfamiliarity;