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If you're teaching The Servant of Two Masters for AQA's Component 1 (List A), this folder's for you!
This teaching folder will provide you with a wealth of teaching ideas and resources to teach the entire play, from both a practical and theory-based perspective. Whether you want to dip in out of the folder, or follow it as a complete scheme, this will save you hours of planning.
All teaching ideas and resources focus upon how directors, designers and performers can use theatrical conventions to realise ideas from the page to the stage. The folder will provide you with a comprehensive range of resources to help students to respond to a variety of exam questions.
The folder contains a series of teaching ideas/plans with a wealth of accompanying photocopiable student handout sheets. It covers many different topics and ideas, all of which will help students to adopt an original and independent vision for this Italian comedy.
The folder could be followed sequentially, used as a complete revision course, or could be used to compliment your own schemes. It can be used alongside any translation of the play.
It covers topics such as:
• Goldoni’s context, his style and ideas. The folders shows students how to analyse the playwright’s themes and portray them in a performance, as well as looking at Goldoni’s depiction of females and his intentions for his drama. Students are encouraged to consider how they, as either actors, designers or directors, will convey these intentions to a modern audience.
• There are numerous resources to help students understand this play’s influences such as Commedia dell’Arte. The resources show students how Goldoni was influenced by this style of theatre and how students could use their own Commedia style within their interpretations. The folder offers practical workshop suggestions to introduce students to this physical style of performance, as well as theory about the acting styles, characterisation and stock character traits that Goldoni has imbued many of his characters with.
• The folder provides a comprehensive analysis of the characters within this play, looking at topics such as how a performer can create humour through Truffaldino, performing the roles of Smeraldina, Clarice, Silvio, Florindo and Pantalone. The folder looks at the characters from a range of acting perspectives such as looking at vocal suggestions, staging Beatrice’s disguise, casting choices and design elements for these roles. It helps students to create their own imaginative and independent interpretations for these roles in performance.
• The resources also show students how they could draw influence from famous theatre practitioners such as Michel Saint Denis, Lecoq and Copeau when practically approaching a play such as this, using ideas about body, movement and voice to explore acting styles.
• There are many resources to help teach the style of the play, ensuring students look at its comedic potential for a modern day audience. The sheets cover a wide variety of topics such as how to use slapstick acting styles for certain roles or how to approach a role from a comedic performance.
• The resources within the folder will also show students how to look at this play from a design perspective looking at a range of design ideas such as: the stage space required for a production of this play, Goldoni’s design intentions, using props to help create comedy, creating costume ideas and many more.
• Throughout the folder there are numerous opportunities for students to plan an exam response, exam hints and tips. The folder also concludes with a revision section, offering a range of exam questions for students to prepare and answer, all with detailed planning sheets.
This teaching folder will provide you with a wealth of teaching ideas and resources to teach the entire play, from both a practical and theory-based perspective. Whether you want to dip in out of the folder, or follow it as a complete scheme, this will save you hours of planning.
All teaching ideas and resources focus upon how directors, designers and performers can use theatrical conventions to realise ideas from the page to the stage. The folder will provide you with a comprehensive range of resources to help students to respond to a variety of exam questions.
The folder contains a series of teaching ideas/plans with a wealth of accompanying photocopiable student handout sheets. It covers many different topics and ideas, all of which will help students to adopt an original and independent vision for this Italian comedy.
The folder could be followed sequentially, used as a complete revision course, or could be used to compliment your own schemes. It can be used alongside any translation of the play.
It covers topics such as:
• Goldoni’s context, his style and ideas. The folders shows students how to analyse the playwright’s themes and portray them in a performance, as well as looking at Goldoni’s depiction of females and his intentions for his drama. Students are encouraged to consider how they, as either actors, designers or directors, will convey these intentions to a modern audience.
• There are numerous resources to help students understand this play’s influences such as Commedia dell’Arte. The resources show students how Goldoni was influenced by this style of theatre and how students could use their own Commedia style within their interpretations. The folder offers practical workshop suggestions to introduce students to this physical style of performance, as well as theory about the acting styles, characterisation and stock character traits that Goldoni has imbued many of his characters with.
• The folder provides a comprehensive analysis of the characters within this play, looking at topics such as how a performer can create humour through Truffaldino, performing the roles of Smeraldina, Clarice, Silvio, Florindo and Pantalone. The folder looks at the characters from a range of acting perspectives such as looking at vocal suggestions, staging Beatrice’s disguise, casting choices and design elements for these roles. It helps students to create their own imaginative and independent interpretations for these roles in performance.
• The resources also show students how they could draw influence from famous theatre practitioners such as Michel Saint Denis, Lecoq and Copeau when practically approaching a play such as this, using ideas about body, movement and voice to explore acting styles.
• There are many resources to help teach the style of the play, ensuring students look at its comedic potential for a modern day audience. The sheets cover a wide variety of topics such as how to use slapstick acting styles for certain roles or how to approach a role from a comedic performance.
• The resources within the folder will also show students how to look at this play from a design perspective looking at a range of design ideas such as: the stage space required for a production of this play, Goldoni’s design intentions, using props to help create comedy, creating costume ideas and many more.
• Throughout the folder there are numerous opportunities for students to plan an exam response, exam hints and tips. The folder also concludes with a revision section, offering a range of exam questions for students to prepare and answer, all with detailed planning sheets.
