As society shifts further away from face-to-face interactions in favour of the gratification of our screens and devices, how can actors and live performance play a vital role in reconnecting young people to their social relationships and responsibilities? In this subject, students work as devisors and actors to explore issues relevant to their age group. They learn and strengthen ensemble work, and explore play scripts written for teenagers, which deal with identity, difference, actions and consequences. The student devisors experiment with shaping performance in a variety of ways, in order to make social comment and communicate dramatic meaning. Participants explore live performance from both sides of the limelight, viewing live theatre to experience professional acting from an audience’s point of view, as well as rehearsing, polishing and performing student-devised drama for a peer audience.
Strength in Difference.
A small group or individual polished performance of student-devised drama, and written paragraphs analysing one actor’s use of dramatic languages to create character.
Ms Melissa White
mwhite@mfac.edu.au
