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Hi Year 10, I hope you all had a good half term.
I am setting you a research project for the next two weeks in two parts. This is based on the set text we will be studying in preparation for your written examination. The text is ' Hard to Swallow' by Mark Wheeller.
1. Please research 5 facts about the playwright Mark Wheeller - his life and work.
2. Research any information you can about the play 'Hard to Swallow' - this can be in the form of a word document or a mood board/ poster photographed and uploaded on the Edmodo Year 10 Drama and Theatre Studies Class - ptck5n - that includes a little about the story line of the play, the main characters, the style of the play - the fact it was adapted from a book by the mother of the protagonist, where the play has been performed and toured etc.
The deadline for this work in two parts is in two weeks time - the 16th June.
Keep watching the free theatre that is currently available - the National Theatre stream every Thursday.
Or watch a great film that you can tell me about when we meet again - a film that made you laugh or cry in true Stanislavskian style!
Keep safe girls, keep creative.
Ms Milne

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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE THE NATIONAL THEATRE

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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE THE NATIONAL THEATRE

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Streamed on YouTube on the 21st May!

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1. Create an A4 side of research exploring the play A Streetcar Named Desire by the American playwright Tennessee Williams.
2.. Watch the National Theatre streamed production of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, starring Gillian Anderson, streamed on Thursday and available for a week. Just look it up on YouTube.

2. Complete the staging worksheet attached in detail.
4, Write a paragraph detailing your response to the production.
All due by the end of Half Term - Thursday 4th June (you have 2 weeks from when the production is streamed.)

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Complete the instructions on the worksheet attached.
This work is due by Monday 11th May.
SUBMIT TO EDMODO Year 10m Drama and Theatre Studies ptck5n

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You can watch Wise Children by the practitioner we have studied Emma Rice at bbc.co.uk/iplayer it will be available for two months. you will need to register or sign in for this.
It’s 23 April, Shakespeare’s birthday.
About the Play:

In Brixton, Nora and Dora Chance – twin chorus girls born and bred south of the river – are celebrating their 75th birthday. Over the river in Chelsea, their father and greatest actor of his generation Melchior Hazard turns 100 on the same day. As does his twin brother Peregrine. If, in fact, he’s still alive. And if, in truth, Melchior is their real father after all…

A big, bawdy tangle of theatrical joy and heartbreak, Wise Children is a celebration of show business, family, forgiveness and hope. Expect show girls and Shakespeare, scandal, music, mischief and mistaken identity – and butterflies by the thousand.

Emma Rice brings her unique, exuberantly impish vision to Angela Carter’s great last novel, Wise Children, launching her new theatre company of the same name and its London residency at The Old Vic.

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ATTENTION!!
Message for Year 10 DRAMA STUDENTS

Welcome to the Summer Term! I hope everyone is safe and healthy!
A few changes this term:
You need to complete a lesson of Drama a week. I have broken the summer term projects up into tasks and will be issuing deadline dates for every task.

Submit work to Edmodo Year 10 Drama and Theatre Studies ptck5n where there will be set tasks that correlate to the padlet and deadlines.
Can you let me know if any of you have been able to purchase our set text Hard to Swallow by Mark Wheeler look to the post on the right for links to this!
You can email me at imilne@uai.org.uk for questions and help.

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TASK 1:
Follow the steps below for every stimuli on the list:

1. Research the stimulus - where does it come from?

2. write down your initial thoughts and responses to the stimulus.

3. Thought shower the stimulus - possible ideas for plot lines for the Devised Theatre piece.

TASK 2:
You are to add to the document so that you have a completed revision document ready for our study of Component 3 - the Drama written examination. You must research and describe 2-4 rehearsal techniques a week- follow the format on the original document. There should be 10 of your researched rehearsal technique contributions added to the document. This should be completed alongside your Component 1 project. This assignment is due IN BROKEN DOWN CHUNKS ACCORDING TO THESES DEADLINE DATES:

2 REHEARSAL TECHNIQUES ADDED TO THE DOCUMENT ATTACHED.

BOTH TASKS ARE  DUE ON MONDAY 27TH APRIL! SUBMIT TO EDMODO Year 10m Drama and Theatre Studies ptck5n

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TASK 2 - REHEARSAL TECHNIQUES DOCUMENT.

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TASK 1:

1. Choose your favourite idea from your 4 thought showers on the Component 1 stimuli and conduct some secondary research based on it - this can be a news paper article or a true account story - at least 1 example of secondary research for every stimuli- where are your ideas taking you?.

2. Story board a possible plot arc for 6 scenes - do not forget Cross-Cutting! You should provide the following for all the 6 scenes:

The location of the scene

The characters involved

The events in the scene

Images are welcome but optional

TASK 2:

You are to add to the document so that you have a completed revision document ready for our study of Component 3 - the Drama written examination. You must research and describe 2-4 rehearsal techniques a week- follow the format on the original document. There should be 10 of your researched rehearsal technique contributions added to the document. This should be completed alongside your Component 1 project. This assignment is due IN BROKEN DOWN CHUNKS ACCORDING TO THESE DEADLINE DATES:

2 REHEARSAL TECHNIQUES ADDED TO THE DOCUMENT ATTACHED.

BOTH TASKS ARE  DUE ON TUESDAY 5TH MAY!

SUBMIT TO EDMODO Year 10m Drama and Theatre Studies ptck5n

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Year 10, here are two links to fab theatre! Live,  filmed performances of:
Everybody's Talking About Jamie - fab West End Musical
and
Girls Like That - amazing piece that I use frequently for Component 2 scripted exams. Fabulous ensemble piece with a feminist message,
Watch and learn, but please do not allow younger siblings to watch as they both have 14+ age restrictions.
Just copy and paste the links into the URL bar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yd6iF0mCCQ&authuser=0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx2KDNusk9E&authuser=0

The link to the set text on itunes  for our Component 3 study. Hard to Swallow by Mark Wheeller. £5.49
Download it if you can - don't worry if you cant. I will provide you with texts when we get back to school.
If you can, read it, understand it, imagine it in performance and I will send study questions about the text.
https://books.apple.com/gb/book/hard-to-swallow/id1053904088

If you have managed to purchase Hard to Swallow by Mark Wheeller (also available on Amazon) please write a plot summary for all 14 sections (scenes):
Who are the chararcters?
What happens in the section?
email to EDMODO CLASS YEARS 10 DRAMA AND THEATRE STUDIES ptck5n for checking.

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NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE STREAMING ON THURSDAYS!

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NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE STREAMING ON THURSDAYS!

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Every Thursday the National Theatre will be streaming a live filmed performance of some of their best productions.
This will be available to watch on Youtube for a week - just type National Theatre Live into in to Youtube.
I want Year 10  to watch the productions and complete the design work sheet below. Submit this to EDMODO CLASS YEAR 10 DRAMA AND THEATRE STUDIES ptck5n weekly.

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SUMMER TERM
Right girls,
I am sending you the choice of 4 stimuli for our Component 1 devised piece worth 40% of the GCSE. We will be throwing ourselves into it on our return! I have decided to keep you in the groups you have formed for the mock C1 you started - so your group chats can still stand. these are now your exam groups! We will no longer do a mock exam for C1, we will go straight into the real thing, so I am setting you a project to complete in response to the stimuli. Follow the steps below for every stimuli on the list:

1. Research the stimulus - where does it come from?

2. write down your initial thoughts and responses to the stimulus.

3. Thought shower the stimulus - possible ideas for plot lines for the Devised Theatre piece -THIS WORK IS DUE ON MONDAY 27TH APRIL! SUBMIT TO EDMODO Year 10m Drama and Theatre Studies ptck5n

4. Choose your favourite idea and conduct some secondary research based on it - this can be a news paper article or a true account story.

5. Story board a possible plot arc for 6 scenes - do not forget Cross-Cutting!

THIS WORK IS DUE ON TUESDAY 5TH MAY!
SUBMIT TO EDMODO Year 10m Drama and Theatre Studies ptck5n

1. Give your plot arc a working title.

2. Attribute a PRACTITIONER or a GENRE to your plot arc. Research your chosen practitioner to revise your knowledge. Annotate your storyboard with 4-6 practitioner techniques across the scenes.

Practitioners we have studied (choose 1):
Stanislavski
Brecht
Artaud
Berkoff
Emma Rice
Katie Mitchell
OR
Genres we have studied (choose 1)
Physical Theatre
Theatre in Education
Musical Theatre

DEADLINE FOR THIS COMPLETE PROJECT IS:
FRIDAY 15TH MAY!!
This should take some time. You should keep coming back to it! Do a little every day.
Create a computer document for this or write out and take pictures of your work and submit to EDMODO YEAR 10 DRAMA AND THEATRE STUDIES CLASS ptck5n Put your name very clearly on your work.

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You are to read and study the rehearsal techniques handout I have created for you (see attachment). Over the next 5 weeks you are to add to the document so that you have a completed revision document ready for our study of Component 3 - the Drama written examination. You must research and describe 2-4 rehearsal techniques a week- follow the format on the original document. There should be 10 of your researched rehearsal technique contributions added to the document. This should be completed alongside your Component 1 project. This assignment is due IN BROKEN DOWN CHUNKS ACCORDING TO THESES DEADLINE DATES:

2 REHEARSAL TECHNIQUES - MONDAY 27TH APRIL.

2 REHEARSAL TECHNIQUES - TUESDAY 5TH MAY.

2 REHEARSAL TECHNIQUES - MONDAY 11TH MAY.

4 REHEARSAL TECHNIQUES -FRIDAY 22ND MAY.

The entire document should be complete and submitted on Friday 22nd May 2020. (The entire Component 1 project is due on 15th May-SEE RELEVANT POST FOR THIS).
All work to be submitted to Edmodo class Year 10 Drama and Theatre Studies ptck5n