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The folder contains a wealth of photocopiable student handouts as well as teaching ideas that allow you to cover topics such as:
• The play’s context. The resources will help you to teach the important contextual factors behind this play such as Wertenbaker’s own background, her styles and influences as well as the cultural context that she was writing in. The resources and teaching ideas encourage students to adopt their own directorial ideas for this play as well as acknowledging the factors that will have inspired Wertenbaker such as political and social events and historical events. The resources place the play firmly in its historical theatrical context. The handouts focus specifically upon the setting of the play and events which may have influenced the playwright. Students are provided with theory about eighteenth century Britain and the convict ships of the late 1700s.
• Key moments or scenes of the play. For example, students are encouraged to analyse Wertenbaker’s opening of the play and ways in which they can experiment with visual and aural effects in their own productions.
• Wertenbaker’s portrayal of the officers and guards in the play and how these characters are conveyed to an audience, looking specifically at issues such as power, status and justice.
• Developing a design concept that would suit Wertenbaker’s writing and her own staging ideas, by looking at theatre of the absurd and taking influence from the work of Artaud.
• In depth character analysis of major characters such as Ralph, Ross, Harry and Wisehammer. Students are encouraged to consider the character relationships, particularly in the rehearsal scenes and ways in which the characters change as the play progresses.
• Exploring themes in the play and how directors may try to convey such themes as justice, love, guilt and the power of drama through both acting and set design.
• How movements such as postmodernism, symbolism and realism could influence directorial visions of the play.
• Exam-style questions and planning sheets, helping students to feel confident about tackling exam questions.
• The play’s context. The resources will help you to teach the important contextual factors behind this play such as Wertenbaker’s own background, her styles and influences as well as the cultural context that she was writing in. The resources and teaching ideas encourage students to adopt their own directorial ideas for this play as well as acknowledging the factors that will have inspired Wertenbaker such as political and social events and historical events. The resources place the play firmly in its historical theatrical context. The handouts focus specifically upon the setting of the play and events which may have influenced the playwright. Students are provided with theory about eighteenth century Britain and the convict ships of the late 1700s.
• Key moments or scenes of the play. For example, students are encouraged to analyse Wertenbaker’s opening of the play and ways in which they can experiment with visual and aural effects in their own productions.
• Wertenbaker’s portrayal of the officers and guards in the play and how these characters are conveyed to an audience, looking specifically at issues such as power, status and justice.
• Developing a design concept that would suit Wertenbaker’s writing and her own staging ideas, by looking at theatre of the absurd and taking influence from the work of Artaud.
• In depth character analysis of major characters such as Ralph, Ross, Harry and Wisehammer. Students are encouraged to consider the character relationships, particularly in the rehearsal scenes and ways in which the characters change as the play progresses.
• Exploring themes in the play and how directors may try to convey such themes as justice, love, guilt and the power of drama through both acting and set design.
• How movements such as postmodernism, symbolism and realism could influence directorial visions of the play.
• Exam-style questions and planning sheets, helping students to feel confident about tackling exam questions.
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