In this area of study students analyse and evaluate an interpretation of a script in a production from the prescribed VCE Theatre Studies Unit 3 Playlist.
Students analyse and evaluate the relationship between the written script and its interpretation on stage. In doing so, students study ways the interpretation on stage draws on and interprets the contexts in the script. This includes the decisions that have been made when interpreting the script, for example decisions about acting, direction and design and the use of theatre technologies and elements of theatre composition.
Students evaluate the ways theatre practitioners, such as the director, actors, designers, or a dramaturg, have contributed to the interpretation on stage. Students study how the theatre styles and contexts implied in the written script are interpreted when the play is performed to an audience. Students analyse the theatre production and develop skills in using theatre terminology and expressions to describe how the script has been interpreted creatively and imaginatively. Their analysis and evaluation of the production is informed by work undertaken in Areas of Study 1 and 2.
• ways to analyse and evaluate a theatre production
• the contexts of the written script and how they have been interpreted in the production
• theatre styles in the written script and in the play in performance
• evidence of decisions taken by a creative team of theatre practitioners to interpret the written script for performance
• production roles and their application in developing the written script for performance
• theatre technologies and their use in the production
• elements of theatre composition and their use in the production
• terminology and expressions used to describe, analyse and evaluate a theatre production.
• analyse and evaluate ways in which the contexts of a written script were interpreted creatively and imaginatively
in performance to an audience
• analyse and evaluate the application of production roles to develop the written script for performance
• analyse and evaluate the use of theatre technologies in the production
• analyse and evaluate the use of elements of theatre composition in the production
• use appropriate theatre terminology and expressions.
Responses to structured questions in exam conditions.