Students will study performance styles from a range of social, historical, contemporary and cultural contexts. Students apply play-making techniques to devise and create work to shape and give meaning to their performance for an audience. They manipulate expressive and performance skills in the creation and presentation of characters and develop awareness and understanding of how characters are portrayed within certain performance styles and in contemporary drama practices. They reflect upon documented work processes, applying relevant drama terminology. Students attend, analyse and evaluate a performance by professional drama practitioners.
• analyse and evaluate performance styles, conventions and dramatic elements
• use appropriate drama terminology to analyse and evaluate performance.
• create, sustain and develop a role to communicate meaning
• apply symbol, transformation of character, time and place and production areas
appropriate to the selected performance styles
• create and present ensemble performances
1: Students will study post dramatic performance styles from a range of social, historical, contemporary and cultural contexts.
2: Students will apply play-making techniques to devise and create work to shape and give meaning to a performance for an audience.
3: Students will attend, analyse and evaluate a performance by professional drama practitioners to enable students to make connections with their own work.
Assessment:
AT 1: Demonstrate an understanding of performance styles and conventions through a short performance presented in class.
AT 2: Written analysis of a professional drama performance.
AT 3: Create and perform an ensemble performance to an audience.
Actor, Theatre-maker, Script writer, Drama Critic, Designer, Director, Theatre Technician, Performing Arts Management, Performing Arts Administration, Communication, Executive Leadership, Counselling, Teaching, Journalism, TV and Radio Broadcasting, Producer. Skills: Public speaking, Problem solving, Team building