Actions for Making theatre : the frazzled drama teacher's guide to devising
Making theatre : the frazzled drama teacher's guide to devising / Joss Bennathan
- Author
- Bennathan, Joss
- Published
- London : Nick Hern Books, 2013.
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Physical Description
- xiii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.How do I determine the best way of grouping students? -- 2.How do I manage and monitor several groups rehearsing simultaneously? -- 3.The group I am teaching has very low-level skills and very little ability to work productively for any length of time. How do I raise them to the required standard? -- 4.How long should the rehearsal process be? -- 5.How do I enable students to avoid shallow, clichéd work? -- 6.How do I ensure that boys engage and attain? -- 7.How do I include the erratic attender without jeopardising the work of the others? -- 8.What degree of directing and guidance is appropriate? -- 9.To what extent is it appropriate to use existing scripts, and do these benefit or limit candidates' attainment? -- 10.The exam specification we use stipulates a theme. Doesn't this limit what I can do? -- 11.Should some subjects, themes and styles be avoided? -- 12.To what extent do costumes, set and lighting impress an examiner? -- 13.My best student last year did not get the marks they deserved. What happened? How do I avoid it this year? -- 14.I worry that an inappropriate audience response will distract the visiting examiner or undermine the performers. What can I do to avoid this situation? -- Overview -- Structures for Making Theatre -- 1.Transgressive Love -- 2.Reportage -- 3.Montage -- 4.We All Come From Somewhere Else -- 5.No Inspiration Required -- 6.This Woman's Work -- 7.The Multiple Protagonist -- 8.The Third Way -- 9.Same Starting Point, Different Outcomes -- 10.No Feeling, No Emotion -- An Overview of Stage 3: Rehearsing -- Student Resource Sheets -- 1.Creating a Character: Getting Started -- 2.Making Theatre: Getting Started -- 3.Developing a Character in Depth and Detail -- 4.Making Theatre: Depth and Detail -- Overview -- 1.Audibility -- Can you hear them? -- Can you understand what they are saying? -- 2.Characterisation -- Is the student convincing in the role? -- Does the student move in a way that is appropriate to the character, in general or at a particular moment? -- Does the student use a vocabulary appropriate to the character? -- Does the student know why they are speaking? -- Does the characterisation lack depth and detail? -- Has the student considered the character's backstory? -- Is the student commenting on the character? -- Are the different characters being played actually different from each other? -- Is the student gesturing too much? Or gesturing inappropriately? -- Is the student's face expressive enough? -- That student is just wandering around the stage! What do I do to stop this? -- 3.Visibility -- Is there an awareness of the importance of how the piece is staged? -- 4.Communication -- Is the ensemble energised? -- Is the ensemble focused on and attuned to each other? -- Why is that direct address not working? -- Why is this scene not working? -- Are the students telling rather than showing? -- What is going on in the scene and why? -- What is the point of this scene? -- Does the scene lack tension? -- Is a student overacting? Are they underacting? -- How are the group managing transitions and performance conventions? -- Everything is happening so fast it's incomprehensible! What can I do? -- Does the work lack presence and a sense of occasion? -- Is the narrative clear? -- Group-work Preference -- Scheme of Work Audit -- Ensuring Boys' Attainment -- Transgressive Love: 'Vrbana Bridge' -- Montage: Extract from 'The Trial' -- We All Come From Somewhere Else: Interview Questions -- We All Come From Somewhere Else: Arrival: Personal Testimony -- No Inspiration Required: Pair Exercise (A) and Trio Exercise -- No Inspiration Required: Solo Exercise (A) and Pair Exercises (B) and (C) -- No Inspiration Required: Solo Exercise (B) -- This Woman's Work: Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View -- The Third Way: 'Pirate Jenny' -- Same Starting Point, Different Outcomes: Notice of Change of Name -- No Feeling, No Emotion: Military Drill -- No Feeling, No Emotion: Varnado Simpson's Account -- No Feeling, No Emotion: My Lai: Personal Testimony -- 'Rehearsing is not about getting it right...'.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781848423053 (pbk.)
1848423055 (pbk.) - Note
- Includes index.
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