Experiments in Theatre Styles

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Natasha Brice 10G

Experiments in Theatre Styles

‘ Evaluate your own work and the work of the rest of the class.’

During the past few lessons we have been working with different styles of theatre, and how they work in our drama practicals. We experimented with different styles of theatre including silent theatre, musical, Shakespearean, film and advertising.

My group had to experiment with adverts and we decided to advertise bullying. I feel that this style worked well with our topic (bullying), although it still needs a great deal of work to make it very effective and provocative. I think that our group made the advert too serious, and I think that we were too afraid about letting the advert be different to the rest of the drama. We need to concentrate on making it obviously an advert in order for the audience to feel shock as they see bullying portrayed as an everyday thing. We could use a signature tune at the beginning and the end in order to make the audience realise straight away that it is an advert. As it an advert, I think we should advertise bullying in a more exaggerated way, so that first, the audience will find it amusing, but realisation will sink in on how awful bullying is.

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        Sukey’s group had to experiment using a Shakespearean style. I thought this worked brilliantly, and the group members performed it very well. Their theme was expectations and the vivid imagery and descriptive language used by Shakespeare worked really well in their drama and made it all the more horrifying. I thought that they conveyed it economically as well. To improve it, they should learn their lines and I felt that they could have maybe used more space.

        Lottie’s group experimented with silent theatre and music. I really liked this and feel that this has a great deal of potential. The ...

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