MOCK EXAM MARCH 5, 2018

MOCK EXAM: 8AM-NOON - 4 HOURS

PART 1 OF EXAM: ORAL EVALUATION WITH MS. GUZOWSKI (15 MIN.)

• Go over exam

• CAF: solo project

• Solo Project: do another performance? Clarify: entire piece is uploaded.

• Collaborative: check-in about where you are on writing about process since fall performance (use exam notes below as guide)

• World Theatre Tradition: go over exam

• Director's Notebook: mention work during break

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PART 2 OF EXAM: COLLABORATIVE PROJECT JOURNAL WRITING

(45 MIN.)

Write Journal entries that will be used as a resource for your final Process Portfolio.

YOU WILL TURN YOUR JOURNAL ENTRIES IN AT THE END OF THIS EXAM.

Click on this link to get to the google doc where you will write the below journal entries.

1. IN YOUR JOURNAL: write about audience feedback and your response to the audience feedback, noting:

   1. if your artistic intentions were achieved and how you know if they were achieved.

   2. If artistic intentions were not achieved, note why you think this is true based upon the audience's feedback.

   3. Anything new you may have learned from the audience feedback, if anything. (If you had no new insights or ideas stimulated by audience feedback, then do not write this section).

   4. ***if you have not already done so: write about how the audience feedback in the fall affected your development of the final collaborative piece.

2. IN YOUR JOURNAL: if you have not already done so: write about your final practical explorations, including discoveries and developments in your artistic choices because of these explorations and discoveries.

3. IN YOUR JOURNAL: if you have not already done so: write about peer and teacher feedback and the affect this feedback had on your choices for your final performance

4. IN YOUR JOURNAL: if you have not already done so: write about your experience of the final performance and your critical evaluation of the performance - you may, again, refer to audience feedback as a verification point, if this is useful in your writing.

5. IN YOUR JOURNAL: write about what you learned through creating the collaborative piece about:

• 1. creating theatre

  2. yourself as an artist

  3. how you feel creating this piece has affected how you will create theatre in the future

If you have time, begin to revise these sections of your Process Portfolio to reflect work towards your final performance and fall performance:

• The formation of my group and our exploration of the starting point (including our target audience and intentions for the piece)

• Reflections on the collaborative development of our piece and the specific explorations led by me

This part of your paper ought already be finished, but proof it and re-read before you turn it in to me (draft will be due early in Spring Break).

• My personal context in theatre (including my own approaches, interests and/or skills in theatre) and my research into a professional company that creates and stages original pieces of theatre

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BREAK: 5 MIN.

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PART 2 OF EXAM: SOLO PIECE JOURNAL ENTRIES (POSSIBLY, next performance plan)

(45 MIN.)

If you wish to do your solo performance again, take 15 minutes to decide who your audience will be and make performance date proposal and invitation. Then write journal assignments #2 & #3 below. If you have additional time, add this to Exam section 4.

Open this link to get to google doc page where you will make your plan and invitation

SOLO PIECE PERFORMANCE GUIDELINES: for reference for choosing an audience:

1. Present your solo theatre piece to an audience

   1. The theatre pieces may be presented in a formal or informal performance space as appropriate to the school’s resources and to the selected theorist and nature of the aspect/s of theory being explored.

   2. The audience for this task can be fellow classmates, peers or an external audience selected by the student.

   3. The solo theatre piece demonstrates the use of performance and production elements appropriate to the student’s intentions and the aspect/s of theory they have selected

   4. Your solo theatre performance must have a talkback

If you are keeping the performance you did Friday night, then click on this link to get to the google doc where you will write the below journal entries that will be used as a resource for your final report. YOU WILL TURN YOUR JOURNAL ENTRIES IN AT THE END OF THIS EXAM.

SOLO PIECE JOURNAL ASSIGNMENTS:

Click on this link to get to the google doc where you will write the below journal entries.

1. IN YOUR JOURNAL: record audience feedback and your response to the audience feedback, noting:

   1. if your artistic intentions were achieved and how you know if they were achieved

   2. If artistic intentions were not achieved, note why you think this is true based upon the audience's feedback

2. IN YOUR JOURNAL: record the final week of your practical explorations

3. IN YOUR JOURNAL: record peer and teacher feedback and the affect this feedback had on your choices for your final performance

4. IN YOUR JOURNAL: write about your experience of the final performance

5. IN YOUR JOURNAL: write about what you learned throught creating the solo piece about:

• 1. creating theatre

  2. yourself as an artist

  3. how you feel creating this piece has affected how you will create theatre in the future

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BREAK: 5 MIN.

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PART 3 OF EXAM: WORLD THEATRE RESEARCH PRESENTATION WORK PART 1

(45 MIN)

Research world theatre forms and choose a form you will do your presentation on.

1. Look at the list on this page: World Theatre Research Presentation OVERVIEW

2. Research forms that interest you AND choose one form that you wish to present AND the convention of that form you wish to explore and present. You can use any form of research you wish.

3. Click on this link to get to the google doc where you will record your sources and quotes as you research.

***If you choose your tradition and convention before the 45 minutes is up, then move on to part 4 and add the additional time to part 4.***

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BREAK: 5 MIN.

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PART 4 OF EXAM: WORLD THEATRE RESEARCH PRESENTATION WORK PART 2

(75 MIN)

***you may not finish this section***

Click on this link to get to the google doc where you will answer the below questions.

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1. What is the origin of the theatre tradition you have chosen?

2. In what context is the theatre tradition performed? (examples: festivals, formal theatre, sacred rituals, etc.)

3. With what content is this theatre tradition performed? What stories, music and/or rituals are expressed in this tradition?

4. What is the societal function of the theatre tradition you have chosen? Why is this form of theatre important to the society in which it is performed?

5. What is the relationship between audience and performer?

6. What is the performance convention you have chosen?

7. How is this convention essential to this theatre form?

8. What are the essential performance aspects of this convention?

9. How do performers learn this theatre form and especially how do they learn the convention you have chosen?

10. How will you learn this convention? Make a practical plan for how you will learn this convention in the next month.

11. Do you think you will perform your moment of this convention in its traditional context or in a different way?

12. When will you present?