Course topics.

Try this with Drama

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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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