WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO FOR THIS ASSESSMENT
FORM A GROUP
- Each student reflects on their own personal context, identifying their own approaches, interests and skills in theatre, with a view to using this information to determine who they will collaborate with for this project. Unless there are more than 6 of you generally you will all have to work in one group.
RESEARCH A COMPANY THAT CREATES ITS OWN WORK
- Each student researches the work of a professional company that creates and stages original pieces of theatre (not already studied in depth as part of the theatre course) and examines the approaches employed by the professional company. This research may take a variety of forms, such as websites, published articles, direct communication with the company, interviews and experiences of practical workshops, for example.
CHOOSE A STIMULUS/IDEA FOR YOUR PIECE
- In light of the process above, students form groups (ensembles) of no more than six people with whom to collaboratively create. Each ensemble collaboratively selects a starting point (idea, issue, theme, non-dramatic text, music, object, image, event or site) that they feel has potential for development into an original piece of theatre.
RESEARCH YOUR STARTING POINT AND CHOOSE AN AUDIENCE
- Each student researches the selected starting point, identifying its theatrical possibilities and presenting this to the ensemble.The ensemble uses the research to formulate their intentions for the piece. They select a target audience and identify their intended impact on this target audience.Each student documents this in their theatre journal, paying particular attention to their individual approach, research and contribution to the collaborative process.
REHEARSE YOUR PIECE AND CREATE ALL THE DESIGN ELEMENTS, THEN PERFORM IT TO YOUR AUDIENCE
- The collaboratively created original piece of theatre (13–15 minutes) is presented to an audience as a fully realized production. Following the presentation, each ensemble holds a talkback session with the audience to gauge the impact the piece had and to begin assessing the extent to which the piece fulfilled the ensemble’s intentions.
SELECT 4 MINUTES OF VIDEO AND WRITE UP YOUR REPORT
- A maximum of 4 minutes of video recording is then selected by each student from the video recording of their whole 13–15 minute production. Each student reflects on the collaborative creation of the piece as well as on the final presentation of the original piece of theatre to an audience, making reference to key moments demonstrated in the video recording and explaining how decisions made during the collaborative process came to fruition in the presentation. They also reflect on the processes of collaboration, its benefits and its challenges.They analyse their individual contributions and justify the artistic choices they made. They consider the impact the piece has had on their target audience and the extent to which their individual contribution supported the ensemble’s intentions and vision of the piece.