AE17.TH.8.19

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 8 - Theatre

AE17.TH.8.19
Apply the knowledge of production elements used in a drama/theatre to assess aesthetic choices.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Theatre artists apply criteria to investigate, explore, and assess drama and theatre work.
EQ: How are the theatre artist's processes and the audience's perspectives impacted by analysis and synthesis?

Skills Examples

Hypothetically, each student has been selected to be stage manager of the school's production of The Sound of Music. Each student creates a project proposal, including long- and short-term goals, that correlates to research and preparatory study with production timelines. (The teacher will provide stock timelines to assist in 8th grade instruction.)
Students should begin reading the script to determine the play's essential technical components and theatrical conventions and to establish the playwright's intent. The teacher should add the element of the director's intent for the students. Highlighting directorial choices and how a technician handles each choice should be a section in the final product. The students read the director's specifications. In accordance with plans, she/he prioritizes tasks, assigns and schedules crews, evaluates work in progress and work completed, makes constructive suggestions when improvements are necessary, and revises when the work in progress is off target.
These can be hypothetically or in accordance with a concurrent running show at the school. This is a 3-4-week project and should be completed in a Stage Manager's binder.

Vocabulary

Research
Analysis
Design
Theatrical production

Skills Assessed

Students interpret the intent of the playwright that is to be communicated to the audience, read the director's specifications, and correlate research and study to present a theatrical production.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.