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