10 Drama B

SUBJECT OVERVIEW

The theme of this semester is Forum Theatre which explores possible actions that students can take to transform their world through the medium of theatre. Students will be supported in communication techniques, experimentation, creativity and collaboration encouraging confidence for students to express themselves. Applying knowledge and understanding of the topics explored by participating in group production. Students will view practitioner’s intentions through analysis and evaluating live theatre.

Students use real world situations (i.e. bullying/racism/prejudice/corruption) to expose power and enact change in the community. They will produce and exhibit a performance in either an onstage or offstage role. All students will view a live professional theatrical production and complete a review that will explore the themes of the production and analyse and evaluate practitioner intentions.

Topics may include

• Forum Theatre
• Group production
• Live performance response
• Workshop activities
• Performance
• Multimodal techniques
• Analysis and evaluation
• Collaboration and communication skills
• Production
• Stage and technical design