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KS4 Drama – Devising Skills: Genres – part 4
Devising Skills:
Genres – part 4
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Learning objectives
Learn about a range of drama genres from different
times and cultures in theatre history
Establish connections between theatre genres
Understand how drama styles and formats may be
used in a devised play
Consider the potential to mix elements of different
genres in a devising project
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Naturalism v. Epic theatre
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Musical theatre
Musical theatre has become the
most popular and successful form
of live theatre in the world.
While you are not assessed on
your musical theatre skills in GCSE
Drama, you could choose musical
theatre as a form or genre when
devising or working from a script.
Music can be very helpful in
creating a specific atmosphere or
mood for your performance.
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Theatre in Education
Theatre in Education (TIE) has become a very popular
genre in the late 20th Century.
TIE companies take plays and follow-up
workshops to schools in order to explore
key themes or issues facing students.
TIE is often used to introduce
students to ideas from other subject
areas, such as Citizenship, or to help
students study set texts.
A number of TIE plays are now published and these are
popular with GCSE groups looking to perform one-act plays
with a mix of characters, styles, settings and themes.
What issues or key themes could you explore
in your devised work?
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Physical theatre
Since the 1970s there has been a move in actor training and
in theatre to re-discover the physical
basis of live performance.
Physical theatre is a type of performance
which uses the body to tell a story.
Physical theatre includes:
mime
dance
theatrical acrobatics
puppetry.
Companies like Theatre de Complicite, DV8, Frantic Assembly,
Shared Experience and Trestle have explored ways of making
theatre physical through innovative creative movement.
How could you add creative movement to
your own devised work?
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Genres quiz
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Useful weblinks
Stagework website
www.stagework.org.uk
Frantic Assembly Theatre Company
www.franticassembly.co.uk
National Youth Music Theatre
www.nymt.org.uk
List of main film genres
www.filmsite.org/genres.html
Information on Stanislavski
www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A5133151
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