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Stage Production The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Aims: To identify the conventions of stage plays To explore how are structured To evaluate how these features will impact on the story Key Words: Set Props Stage directions Character Dialogue Establish TO START: NOTES Stage plays work very differently to a novel. Create a brief spider diagram to set out some of these differences, you could alternatively set this out as a table with two columns. Don’t forget to look at things like: Set, props, text and structure. Remember to explore what kind of impact these things may have. You should try to find about 6 key differences between plays and novels. -This can be a class discussion, silent book work or paired/group work.- LINK Accessing a script Scripts work very differently from novels. Scripts are intended to be performed as plays and as a result many of the thoughts of the characters are hidden from us, therefore the play either needs to show us these emotions or tell us them through a narrator or some other trick. Plays can also have multiple events happening at once or the additions of music, costumes and lighting. This can make the play more effective than a novel, but sometimes you miss out on the inner thoughts and the closeness of a character in a novel. As a play is meant to be performed, many of the parts of the script are notes for people other than the actors or the director. These help us know not just what is said, but what is done. Heading– Introduces scene or part of the play. Setting– Part of the stage directions to help establish the location and the surroundings. Character– Name in bold and a description, also part of the stage directions. Stage Directions– In italics, not to be read, show the actions of characters. Dialogue– The words said by characters Task: 1– Using what you now know about stage directions and how scripts are written, use this to create an opening for the play introducing Christopher. Remember to set the location, define the character, explore what actions are currently being performed as well as the dialogue itself. You could try just introducing 1 character or 2. You could try a scene where Christopher is eating tea with his dad or where he is playing with the neighbors dog. This should be about half a page and laid out as you would expect a script. 2-Look at pictures A-D. For each image make a note of what is being shown on the stage and how this could connect to the character of Christopher, you could use some of your ideas from the previous pages. Then roughly draw/sketch the stage and annotate features (watch some of the videos from the national theatre to help understand what is around, or look at the pack, also from the national theatre) Picture A– Christopher stargazing A Picture C– The set C Picture B– Christopher doing math and getting overwhelmed B Picture D– Christopher in London D Aims: To identify the conventions of stage plays To explore how are structured To evaluate how these features will impact on the story Key Words: Set Props Stage directions Character Dialogue Establish Ingredients of the stage. Stage plays can be both very realistic and very unrealistic. That is because you have real, live people which is often a better experience and more genuine than a pre filmed program. However the stage is limited by what there is, the props and things like lighting and sound which are used. These can help us picture the scene but are not as realistic as if we were actually there. The play ‘Curious Incident’ is obviously NOT realistic in many ways. The use of the LED lights and projectors are very obviously different to real life. However they are very effective at showing the main character, Christopher’s, emotions. These emotions and the way he sees the world are different to us and the use of the lights and projectors help us to understand when he is overwhelmed or calm. The key parts of the stage production are: Lighting, Sound, Stage, Props, Actors and Costume. This play also uses projectors and the lighting is especially advanced, using hundreds of LED’s in the background and the stage itself. Watch one of the clips from the national theatre about the stage and how making the set was important to the play. TO REFLECT: EVALUATE Taking on what you now know about scripts and stage plays, evaluate how successful you believe it was to set the story as a stage performance. Remember when evaluating you have to be able to explain what it does and whether this appears to be well done or poorly done. Your teacher will hopefully show you a few ‘making of’ clips on the board and you may have the national theatre pack in front of you. Use these to help make a judgement. This could be a class discussion or 2 paragraphs in your book exploring what is effective and not effective about the choice of staging. Some starters to help: -The use of a grid on the stage can be suitable because… -By only using a few props the story is sometimes less...