Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Theatre artists' interpretations of drama/theatre work are influenced by personal experiences and aesthetics
EQ: How can the same work of art communicate different messages to different people?
EQ: How can the same work of art communicate different messages to different people?
Skills Examples
- Students will watch a play or a filmed play if live theatre is not available (for prime examples, network with high schools, local community and college theatre programs, or traveling professional theatre companies).
- Students will have an open discussion of their opinions about the play. They will begin by answering the questions: 1. What did I see? 2. What did I feel?
- Review online original critiques of the previously viewed play. Discuss the value and weight these reviews receive on a daily basis in the world of theatre. Taking into consideration the critiques and earlier open discussion, students will write their own critiques in which they justify their perspectives and beliefs concerning the play.
Vocabulary
Research
Characterization
- Original Play Critiques
- Live Theatre
- Reflection
- Written Critiques
- Open forum discussion
- Constructive Feedback
- Alexander Technique
- Tone
- Volume
- Enunciation
Characterization
- Believability
- Stanislavski
- Blocking
- Business on stage
- Choices
- Balanced stages
- Picturization
- Lighting
- gels
- LEDs
- stage plots
- cues
- Costume
- characterization
- Sewing
- patterns
- costume plots
- Sound
- stage plot
- sound cues
- special effects
- Makeup
- Stage makeup
- Use of shadow
- corrective makeup
- Cleaning procedures
- Stage management
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
