Revision notes.

Try this with Drama

1. Close your notes and write the main idea in two sentences from memory.
2. Reopen the source and correct the first mistake or omission you find.
3. Add one example and one question to test whether you can apply the idea.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• The four dramatic languages: forms and styles, conventions, elements, skills
• Role, character and relationship on the page and in performance
• Tension, mood, contrast and dramatic focus
• Time, place, space, situation, symbol, language and movement
• What unites the styles: purpose, non-realism and social commentary
• Brechtian conventions: gestus, historification, placard, narration and the broken fourth wall
• Disconnected and non-communicative speech, cyclical form and futility
• Forum and image techniques, direct address and audience agency
• Extreme variation from serious to comic, stock character and word play
• Selecting and describing a key moment so an element's manipulation is visible
• Chorus, mask, ritualised movement and speech, and the Greek performance context
• Soliloquy, aside, direct address and the thrust stage relationship with audience
• Unities, decorum and stock character in the neoclassical inheritance
• Stylistic characteristics and philosophies of Contemporary performance
• Privileging image over spoken text: movement sequence, tableau and poetic image
• Reframing meaning, transforming context and purpose for a 21st century audience
• Climactic, cyclic, episodic, hybrid, linear, non-linear and non-narrative structures
• Contemporary conventions: puppetry, projected image, integration of media, soundscape
• Multiplicity of meanings and the audience's role in making dramatic meaning
• Articulating, evaluating and justifying a directorial vision with stagecraft