Course Description
Building Towards the Big Production
- How to run a Theatre Sports competition – which games/how to improve improvisation/improvised dance
- How to bring a script to life: Acting tips/blocking/mute rehearsal/technology
- How to stage group-devised pieces and monologues for real audiences
How to Mount the Big Production
- How to get the team you want
- How to get the cast you want: Auditioning tips/casting
- What’s the right script/libretto?
- How to ensure attendance and create an efficient rehearsal
- Schedule
How to Control
- Backstage/front of house/sets/lighting/sound/OHS/costs/props
- Costumes/make up/etc
- How to control the actual performance
- What to do pre-show/on the night/after the show
- Voice essentials
- Pre-emptive Troubleshooting
Audience
Primary and secondary teachers with a role in staging the school production and many smaller shows.
Teaching Standards
6.1.2 Proficient Level - Engage in Professional Learning - Identify and plan professional learning needs: Use the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers and advice from colleagues to identify and plan professional learning needs,
4.4.2 Proficient Level - Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments - Maintain student safety: Ensure students’ wellbeing and safety within school by implementing school and/ or system, curriculum and legislative requirements
3.7.2 Proficient Level - Plan for and implement Effective Teaching and Learning - Engage parents/ carers in the educative process: Plan for appropriate and contextually relevant opportunities for parents/ carers to be involved in their children’s learning,
2.2.2 Proficient Level - Know the content and how to teach it - Content selection and organisation: Organise content into coherent, well-sequenced learning and teaching programs
2.1.2 Proficient Level - Know the content and how to teach it - Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area: Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies of the teaching area to develop engaging teaching activities
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