1. How did your role emerge and how was it communicated?
Describe briefly your role. If you play more than one character then describe all the roles and their function in the play. Then choose one or two characters you can focus on and analysis:
Their function in the play
How did you work on developing the character?
What techniques did you use?
Stanislavski system or are they Brechtian characters?
What did your character contribute to the message of the play?
Physical and vocal and objectives of your character
Relationship with other characters and the audience
2. In what way was the Stimulus material developed through the drama process?
Explain how you used Physical theatre techniques
Artaud/Growotski workshops
Give specific examples from the play and analyse in detail
Body language/ Vocal techniques
Communication and relationship with the audience.
Also use one piece of stimulus you all agreed on text/poetry/ music and analyse how it was used during the process of devising.
3. How did group skills contribute to the development of the drama?
Analyse what skills each member of the group is strongest at and then give examples where they demonstrated that strength. For example who was best at research? Who gave the most ideas? Who shaped ideas well into scenes?
Who was the natural leader? Who mediated well? Who was a good listener? Who was the problem solver? Etc.
4. In what ways were acting techniques or design elements and dramatic form used to achieve the intended effect?
Analyse specific moments from the play and analyse the techniques you used and why you chose the forms you did and what you wanted to communicate to an audience through those techniques. N/B:Explain what the technique is before analyzing how you used it.
With design explain what the set or lighting design was meant to communicate to the audience, pick specific moments where the set and lighting was most effective and analyse why.
5. How did the group plan for a range of responses from the audience?
Think about what you want to communicate to an audience, what styles and techniques did you use? Quotes from Practitioners are vital. Give specific examples from the play and analyse what responses you wanted to achieve and then analyse the reponses you actually got from the final performance. This is focussing on audience /actor relationship
Things to mention:
What do you want the audience to think? feel? How will you achieve this.
eg: Dialectic: Do you want them to think about what they are seeing and want to change society?
Do you want them to have a subconscious connection with the meaning:
Perhaps through where you are placing them in the action. Artaud placing of audience in centre of action?
How are you achieving this? Set/ projections/episodic scenes? evaluate (So looking at the structure rather than the specific scenes.
In what ways were acting techniques or design elements and drama forms used to achieve intended effects.
This focuses on the rehearsal process as well as the final product.
Things to mention:
briefly the intended effects then how did you achieve them.
Did you use naturalistic acting in the piece? why? what effect did it give?
Did you use direct address to the audience?
voice over? again why?
sensory exercises eg artaud workshop?
lighting/set ideas why?
use of sound?
costume?
how did this create intended effects.
Did you use Stanislavski or Brecht techniques to achieve the characters or Grotowski and Artaud techniques to create the intended effects how?
6. How did Rehearsals and the production process contribute to the final performance?
Analyse the workshops we did, the choices you made in rehearsals. Give specific examples from the scenes in the play. Quote, analyse how and why they contributed to the final production.
7. Explain how research material was gathered and used within the process
Give clear examples of the research material you used
Then link it directly to specific scenes or character development that came from the research.
Analyse the choices you made and how and why you used the research and how effective it was.
8. Evaluate the ways in which ideas were communicated to the audience.
The key word here is ideas . Think about the message and meaning of the piece and the debate you are setting up and how you are communicating it to the audience.
Things to mention:
Dialectic
The scenes described and evaluated using the message as a focus.
9. Explore the impact of social, cultural and or historical conditions on the work.
1. As your piece is exploring an issue historically to present day, it is a vital part of your devising process. Therefore analyse the moments in history you have used in the play,
Why did you choose those moments?
How do they compare and contrast with present day?
How did they inform on the message of your play?
Give specific examples from the scenes and analyse how and why you used them. What impact do you want to make with these references to the past? Explain and explore this using specific examples and quotes.
10. Indicate how the influences and ideas of other playwrights and /or directors, designers and performers have been used.
Artaud/ Growotski/ Brecht/ Complicite/ Stanislaki.
Analyse and quote from the practitioners and use specific scenes from your play where you can see a direct influence from their work. It may be from character development in rehearsal to choices of audience / actor relationship to use of theatre space etc.
NB/ In all your answers clear quotes from practitioners is vital with analysis of quotes and techniques. Do not leave a quote hanging. Do not just mention a technique without explaining what it is and its function in theatre. Then always give clear examples from the play to back up your points. You must always mention the message in your piece in each essay.
Structured records must each be two sides of A4.
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