Part 3: Realization of Texts in Performance
Developing performance skills
This involves a range of ensemble activity in order to lay the foundations and develop the skills that will be applied in realizing work through performances of both scripted drama and original student work. It includes such things as:
ensemble work
movement and voice work
improvization
role play
characterization
other
Realizing work in performance
Play script - In developing the play script presentation, students should be encouraged to work on interpretive techniques such as:
character and role
exploration of stage space
status, movement and gesture
experimentation with language and voice
non-verbal elements
other
Transformation - This is defined as the adaptation or reconstruction of a non-dramatic text for live theatrical presentation. Possibilities for transformation include the following:
speech becomes dramatic dialogue and monologue
narrated incident becomes a scripted scene
reported episode becomes a performed episode
viewpoint is shifted, for example, from third person to first person
focus or emphasis is shifted
other
Analysing performance
Students should learn to identify:
the effect of direction, performance skills and acting techniques
the synthesis of elements in a performance
the clear intent and effect of the performance on the target audience
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