Achievement Standard 3.6 (91517 version a)
Internal Assessment Resource
Achievement Standard Drama 91517: Perform a substantial acting role in a significant production
Resource reference: Drama 3.6A
Resource title: Slice of Greek life
Credits: 5
Achievement
Perform a substantial acting role in a significant production.
Achievement with Merit
Perform a substantial acting role skilfully in a significant production.
Achievement with Excellence
Perform a substantial acting role effectively in a significant production.
Student instructions:
Introduction
This assessment activity requires you to develop and perform a substantial acting role in Euripides Greek Tragedy, Medea.
You will be assessed on how skilfully and effectively you perform your role in the play.
You will support your performance with a statement of intention on your interpretation of your role and an annotated extract from a part of the script where your role is significant.
You will perform the production to an invited audience of your family and the wider community at a time agreed upon by your teacher.
Your teacher will cast the roles in the play.
This activity will take place over 8-10 weeks of in-class and out-of-class time.
Task
Prepare for the role
To prepare for your role, draw on the understanding you have developed of Euripides, and the “world” of Medea to prepare for your role in the play. Your director will discuss their concept for the realisation of the play with you. You will also participate in text analysis and character development activities. You should consider how your discoveries inform your understanding of your role and how this will influence your performance choices for the role within the play.
You will audition or be cast in a role from Medea.
To prepare for your role, attend class rehearsals (both in class and perhaps out of class time), meet deadlines, and accept direction willingly as well as producing your statement of intent and annotated script. You need to co-operate within the group to enable the performance to be fully realised.
See Resource A for a list of questions to guide your reading and class discussions.
Develop your statement of intention
Once the roles have been cast, reflect on your character in relation to your research and class discussion. Start writing your statement of intention, which is to be handed in before you perform your role. Ask yourself:
Rehearse your role and annotate your script
As the director guides you through the blocking, detailing, fine detailing, technical/production and dress rehearsals of the play, listen, follow direction, and note in pencil on your script the moves and ideas that are relevant to your role.
Continue to annotate the script throughout the rehearsal period.
Listen carefully to the director’s notes that are given after the final rehearsals to add the finishing touches to your interpretation of your role.
Finalise your annotated script and statement of intention for the role interpretation and hand it in prior to your first performance.
Perform your role in Medea
Perform your role as directed and rehearsed to an audience of family and the wider community. Your performance will sustain a purposeful, convincing and accomplished role, explore layers of meaning, and enhance the communication of the role and dramatic context.
Resource A
Do a class reading of Euripides Greek Tragedy, Medea.
Brainstorm initial questions this reading suggests about the themes, characters, and setting of the play and discuss these as a class.
Use the following questions or considerations to support class discussions on Euripides and Greek theatre, and the meaning/message of this play:
Achievement Standard Drama 91517: Perform a substantial acting role in a significant production
Resource reference: Drama 3.6A
Resource title: Slice of Greek life
Credits: 5
Achievement
Perform a substantial acting role in a significant production.
Achievement with Merit
Perform a substantial acting role skilfully in a significant production.
Achievement with Excellence
Perform a substantial acting role effectively in a significant production.
Student instructions:
Introduction
This assessment activity requires you to develop and perform a substantial acting role in Euripides Greek Tragedy, Medea.
You will be assessed on how skilfully and effectively you perform your role in the play.
You will support your performance with a statement of intention on your interpretation of your role and an annotated extract from a part of the script where your role is significant.
You will perform the production to an invited audience of your family and the wider community at a time agreed upon by your teacher.
Your teacher will cast the roles in the play.
This activity will take place over 8-10 weeks of in-class and out-of-class time.
Task
Prepare for the role
To prepare for your role, draw on the understanding you have developed of Euripides, and the “world” of Medea to prepare for your role in the play. Your director will discuss their concept for the realisation of the play with you. You will also participate in text analysis and character development activities. You should consider how your discoveries inform your understanding of your role and how this will influence your performance choices for the role within the play.
You will audition or be cast in a role from Medea.
To prepare for your role, attend class rehearsals (both in class and perhaps out of class time), meet deadlines, and accept direction willingly as well as producing your statement of intent and annotated script. You need to co-operate within the group to enable the performance to be fully realised.
See Resource A for a list of questions to guide your reading and class discussions.
Develop your statement of intention
Once the roles have been cast, reflect on your character in relation to your research and class discussion. Start writing your statement of intention, which is to be handed in before you perform your role. Ask yourself:
- What are the key aspects of your role that you aim to convey in the play?
- What do you want the audience to understand about the story of, for example, Medea and her feelings of hurt and revenge once her ex husband marries another woman? What do you want them to think, feel, or experience?
- Explain briefly how the text and its style, as well as the directorial concept, will influence your performance considerations.
Rehearse your role and annotate your script
As the director guides you through the blocking, detailing, fine detailing, technical/production and dress rehearsals of the play, listen, follow direction, and note in pencil on your script the moves and ideas that are relevant to your role.
Continue to annotate the script throughout the rehearsal period.
Listen carefully to the director’s notes that are given after the final rehearsals to add the finishing touches to your interpretation of your role.
Finalise your annotated script and statement of intention for the role interpretation and hand it in prior to your first performance.
Perform your role in Medea
Perform your role as directed and rehearsed to an audience of family and the wider community. Your performance will sustain a purposeful, convincing and accomplished role, explore layers of meaning, and enhance the communication of the role and dramatic context.
Resource A
Do a class reading of Euripides Greek Tragedy, Medea.
Brainstorm initial questions this reading suggests about the themes, characters, and setting of the play and discuss these as a class.
Use the following questions or considerations to support class discussions on Euripides and Greek theatre, and the meaning/message of this play:
- Discuss the socio/ historical context that Euripides was writing in. What big things were happening in Greece at the time? How do they reflect or link to the life of Euripides or Greece and its people and the play itself?
- Discuss the writer’s purpose in using Greek theatre features in the development of the play.
- Identify and discuss the themes of the play.
- Consider what meaning lies beneath the play.
- What was Euripides’ point in writing it?
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