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Exploring Drama: Key Concepts, Strategies, and Techniques, Schemes and Mind Maps of Theatre

An introduction to the exploration of drama, focusing on key concepts, strategies, and techniques. It covers explorative strategies such as still image, thought-tracking, narrating, hot-seating, role play, cross-cutting, forum theatre, and marking the moment. The drama medium is discussed in terms of costume, masks and make-up, sound and music, lighting, space and levels, set and props, movement, voice, and spoken language. Stimuli including poetry, artefacts, music, play scripts, live theatre performance, television, films, newspapers, and magazine articles are also addressed. Elements of drama such as action/plot/content, forms, rhythm/pace/tempo, contrasts, characterisation, and conventions are outlined.

What you will learn

  • How is the drama medium utilized in drama exploration?
  • What are the explorative strategies used in drama?
  • What are the elements of drama and how do they contribute to a drama production?

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UNIT 1 EXPLORATION OF
DRAMA
THE KEY CONCEPTS FOR DEVELOPING
DRAMA
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UNIT 1 EXPLORATION OF

DRAMA

THE KEY CONCEPTS FOR DEVELOPING

DRAMA

EXPLORATIVE STRATEGIES

  • Explorative strategies
  • • Still image
  • • Thought-tracking
  • • Narrating
  • • Hot-seating
  • • Role play
  • • Cross-cutting
  • • Forum theatre
  • • Marking the moment

STIMULI

  • Poetry
  • • Artefacts: photographs, pictures, masks, props, costume, sculpture, objet d’art
  • • Music
  • • Play scripts
  • • Live theatre performance
  • • Television, films, DVDs and videos
  • • Newspaper and magazine articles
  • • Extracts from literary fiction and non- fiction

ELEMENTS OF DRAMA

• • Action/plot/content •

Forms

• • Climax/anti-climax •

Rhythm/pace/tempo •

Contrasts

• • Characterisation •

Conventions

• • Symbols