Use multimedia to present a play from the modern era entirely through visuals and sound generated through a computer, e.g.use Kabuki make-up for a production of Dorothy Hewitt’s Apply some of the techniques of non-Western make-up to characters from a modern Western play, e.g.As a dramaturg, write some briefing notes for the director’s first rehearsal of a play from the modern era, e.g.Honour as a comedy and as a tragedy, or naturalistically and non-naturalistically, focusing on two elements of theatrical composition. direct an extract of Joanna Murray-Smith’s Direct an extract from a play from the modern era in two distinct styles justify your interpretations, e.g.The Threepenny Opera set as written and set in St Kilda in the 1950s. Choose an extract from a play from the modern era and draw/describe the production areas appropriate to two different contextual interpretations, e.g.Recontextualise an extract of a play from the modern era justify your choices, e.g.Realise scenes from selected texts from three different periods in the modern era, focusing on the characteristic performance style and its associated conventions, e.g.
Discuss which pitch was most successful, using the language of the elements of theatrical composition. a scene featuring Blanche duBois in Tennessee Williams’Ī Streetcar Named Desire.