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1. Evoke a Moment from the Piece to Create a Sense of Atmosphere


This is written in a similar fashion to the opening of a theatre review or a descriptive
paragraph in a narrative. It visually communicates a moment from the piece.

2. Outline the structure of your piece.


What happens?

3. What is the key theme, dramatic question that you wish to explore?
Eg Why does Macbeth want to be king? How does power corrupt?

4. Why is this piece relevant to your audience now?


Think about how this play is relevant now – politics/universal themes/relationships etc

5. What do you want your audience to think/feel/do?


What will your version inspire your audience to think about?

6. How have you attempted to use the elements of drama to convey your message?
Space / tension / rhythm / focus / movement / character / role / mood and
atmosphere / sound / time and place / moment / symbol / dramatic meaning /

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audience engagement

If you want to go further with your Director’s Vision, think about .

1. Form an opinion about the intention of this piece of theatre as influenced by your particular
theatrical style. Write a statement expressing that.

naturalism / expressionism / realism / physical / modernism / postmodernism / absurdist / theatre of


cruelty / commedia del’arte / brechtian / musical theatre / contemporary / Elizabethan

performance style refers to elements used in the realisation of a work in


performance. Where the work is text-based, the
written play-text itself will often imply the adoption of
a certain performance style. Thus a text suggestive
of a music-hall entertainment implies a music-hall
style of presentation. It is also possible for a director
to approach a work through a performance style
alien to the original text (eg a Kabuki Shakespeare)

2. Summarise the theatrical style that you have been influenced by. What are the key aspects of that
style that you have focused on in your piece?

3. Discuss how the style influenced your concept.

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