Working with a PlayScript Part One. Year 7 Drama, Term 1.

Today Learning Intentions – To understand how to work effectively in groups to rehearse and perform a script for your CAT. Success Criteria – I can articulate what my script it about. I can discuss it with my peers. Activities – Warm Up, Scripts Given, Peer Work.

PUT UP YOUR HANDS AND TELL ME A RULE FOR CLASS!! Let us do a quick rule re-cap! PUT UP YOUR HANDS AND TELL ME A RULE FOR CLASS!!

Performance CAT A rubric has been placed under on Weebly for you all. Your CAT will be marked using the following criterion Learning all of your lines Using blocking, body language and voice appropriately. Showing a sound understanding of devising. Using Stagecraft Areas correctly. Self Reflection on your performance.

The next 6 weeks of your dramatic lives. You will all be working on creating a performance (using a script) for the next six weeks. Half of a double will be split into one lesson for an Acting and Stagecraft workshop (voice, blocking, body language, props, costume, directing, publicity) and the other half for group rehearsals with your director. Your group will be responsible for props, costume, sound, publicity, acting and directing. Everyone will be responsible for a Stagecraft area and an acting role. Week 8/9 will be performing and performance reflection with a class audience.

Script Information The scripts we will be using are based on Heroes and Villains. The scripts are mostly short and some characters will have more lines than others, so there is a varied degree of acting involved. If you do not feel overly confident, think about taking a smaller role but be more hands on with Stagecraft and behind the scenes work. As the lines are short, you are expected to know your lines with the assistance of the script (if needed) for the final performance. You will be assessed on this and have 3 weeks to learn them. Please do not put this off to the last moment.

Choosing Groups After a warm up, I will choose 4 leaders from the class. The leaders are going to be given a playscript, go away and read it for 5 mins. They are then going to come back and choose their cast for the play. Leaders MUST choose people that will work well in practical work and that you work well with. Everyone will have a role to play in the group. You MUST cast according to gender. DO NOT JUST CHOOSE YOUR FRIENDS.

Warm Up Organise yourselves (in silence) Hair Colour, Eye Colour, Month of Birth, Height, Sock Colour, Geographically where you were born. People with the same first letter of their name as you. Alphabet.

Leaders Leaders – I will now give you the scripts to take away and read. You will be called back in shortly. The rest of us will be talking together.

Casting The Play Write this down: Assign a director for the group, members of the group who will be responsible for sound, people to organise costume and props, and people to make a poster to advertise your show. Today you are to 1) read the play through once and then 2) cast the roles. Cast the roles. You can either decide as a group or audition for the roles. You MUST use maturity on deciding who will play what character. Start to discuss and write down how you will stage your play, thinking about what set you need (chairs, tables) and start making lists of what props and costume are required. You will then read the play again, but this time as your character, thinking about voice and movement and how you want to play your character. This is going to be a time consuming project, that you must think about and not rush!

Drama journal Who is in your group and what character will each group member play? How did you decide who would take on what responsibility? Explain how you feel about learning all your lines off by heart? Describe the synopsis of your play.