This unit is designed to give students some understanding of the craft of the playwright, the relationship between text and performance and the role of a play within a community. Students will read primary and secondary sources and write about the theatre. On-campus students interpret text for performance and undertake a module of work in production that introduces them to the techniques associated with stage crew and technical tasks. Off-campus students are set weekly questions and complete tasks relating to the playwright's craft. They have the choice to attend an intensive school in which they investigate a play in performance or to write an essay on the relationship between plays in performance and scholarly criticism.