Theater Showcase (5 of 5): Finishing Touches & Performance

Lesson Title: Theater Showcase (5 of 5): Finishing Touches & Performance

Academic Standards: TH:Cr1.1.HSIIIa,TH:Cr3.1.HSIIIb,TH:Pr4.1.HSIIIb, TH:Pr5.1.HSIIIa, TH:Re8.1.HSIIIa, TH:Cn11.2.HSIIIa

Content Creator: Mr. Michael Dzbenski

Level: High School

Duration: 25-35 min

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Objectives

Students will take an open script and create a performance scene from beginning to end.
Students will take on director roles and solidify characterization, stage design, and blocking.
Students will explore and utilize setting, scenery, and prop options for their scene.

Description

This lesson will allow students to focus on the idea of a full performance and implement many of the elements that go in to a full production of an open scene.

Sequence

Course Objectives
Warm-Up
1. Shakes
2. Improvisation
3. Review of Theater Basics
  1. Stage Direction
  2. "Cheating out"
  3. Projecting your voice
  4. Act to the back
The Open Script
1. Developing your Character from Scratch
2. Making Bold Decisions
3. Deciding the Details
4. Your Prop
Setting
1. Where are you (at this moment in time)?
2. "Telling" Elements
  1. Helping the Audience Understand
3. Mood and Color
Rehearsal
Performance
Debrief

Demonstratives & Media

Classroom Space

CS002

Curation Museum

Virtual Field Trips & Lab Demonstrations

Instructional Videos

3D objects

Suggested Ancillary Support

Open Script Reading
- What details are present?
- What is the obvious scene?
- What is the most obscure?
Who is your character?
- What traits can you "show"?
- What details do you keep hidden?
What happened?
- Right before the scene
- Any memories that this scene would trigger?
- Why do you react a certain way?
Your Prop
- Carrying "something" can make acting more natural
- Why do you have it?
- What's its purpose?
  - Regular Use
  - Your "use"?
- Where did it come from?
- Does it have special meaning?
The setting
- Time period
- Mood
- What is happening outside?
- If you could only have one thing on the stage to help the audience, what would it be?
- How does color effect your scene?
  - Black and White
  - Bright Colors
  - Pastels
  - Dark Greys, Browns, and Black
  - Earth tones
Bring your scene to LIFE!

Notes

Scene Shop 360 Video - https://youtu.be/R15PudVEVik
The Feeling of Blue 360 Video - https://youtu.be/VkKuQZbvNFo
Pink - https://youtu.be/RvYveDPCqGU
Yellow - https://youtu.be/CmBtaGWA8GY
Green - https://youtu.be/25KYwMFDYSk

Presentation: https://bit.ly/2R4HKKy