Performance Workshops

Black Swan offers a range of performance workshops which are beneficial for students undertaking drama examinations. Each workshop is 2 hours in duration with a maximum of 25 participants. All participants receive a certificate of participation, including the teacher, which can be used towards WACOT professional learning.

TARGET AUDIENCE: High School Drama Students Yrs 10-12 
BOOKINGS: 4 weeks before the desired date.                  
COST: $300 ex GST & mileage

Selecting, Preparing and Performing Monologues

Curriculum Links: Drama Course Stage 2 and Stage 3 Examinations Part 2
Details: A practical and interactive 2 hour workshop devised to assist students with undertaking the process involved in selecting, creating and presenting a monologue. Our visiting artist will concentrate on a monologue of the school’s choice and will place the monologue in the context of the scene and the play from which it is drawn. Together, students and the artist will identify key lines of dialogue, the climax of the piece and the character’s motivations. Appropriate performance styles and choices are discussed and applied in order to effectively realise the character in performance.

Original Solo Production

Curriculum Links: Drama Course Stage 2 and Stage 3 Examinations Part 1
Details: An interactive and practical workshop designed to assist students with this challenging examination task. The workshop will show students how to transform ideas into a dramatic piece and a character. A clear structure is established to enable students to take their chosen character/s on a journey from the beginning of the piece to the resolution. Along the way ideas about performance styles, dramatic elements and stagecraft will be addressed.

Preparing and Performing Improvisations

Curriculum Links: Drama Course Stage 2 and Stage 3 Examinations Part 3
Details: Improvisation is the art of making stuff up. Actors often get bound to scripts and lost in text interpretation and they forget to create. Improvisation can free the actor to explore characters, narrative and connections. This 2 hour workshop will unlock the students spontaneity, creativity, character generation, scene building, narrative structure and enhance their preparations for their tasks and examinations.

Bookings:
To be made at least 4 weeks before the desired date.

Contact:

Alena Tompkins
Black Swan State Theatre Company Education Manager
Phone: (08) 6389 0311   Fax: (08) 6389 0322
Mobile: 0419 194 029     Email: alena@bsstc.com.au
Mon - Thu  7:30-3:30  Tue email or mobile only

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