SKILLS-BASED
&
THEATRICAL GENRE PLAYS
- Plays for Teaching Theatre Skills -
The study and performance of Theatre utilises many individual
dramatic skills and encourages personal development both in and outside
of a performing context
Written
to compliment a Performing Arts Development Course, each play focuses
on a specific dramatic skill (diction, caricature, improvisation,
etc) or on a specific theatrical period
From
the Greeks to Brecht, each play provides a practical application of
dramatic theory and/or skill in a fun setting and with interesting characters
Click
on the play titles below to see a sample of each script
Tickets
Please -
Brechtian Epic Theatre - Tickets Please examines the actor/audience
relationship in a series of short vignettes, each addressing one aspect
of the onstage/offstage relationship
Tuffet
Out - Little Miss Muffet Through Theatre
History -
The story of Little Miss Muffet is translated through theatre styles
from Ancient Greek Theatre & Medieval Morality Play to Absurdism
and even a Broadway Musical
Bar
Codes - Genre -
There is a murder at the 'Novel Idea Bar' – librarian down. Detective
Dewey Decimal has to uncover whodunit but each book he interviews saw
the same events except interpreted it in their own unique genre
Bored
Games - Whodunnit? -
Set in the Mayfair Hotel, Milton Bradley is found murdered. It is up
to the cast, characters from all sorts of board games, to solve whodunnit!
Line
Of Work - Structured Improvisation
-
Line of Work is set in a most unusual employment office where those
without jobs are asked to fill in for stationary and other office equipment
Reunions
- Soap Opera -
It’s a High School Reunion with all the soap opera characters
– Ridge, Thorn, River, Brooke, Stream… But what secret is
Mrs Mangle hiding?
Ngurra
Wardingki - A Walpiri Dreaming -
Combining several Aboriginal Dreamings and ritual theatre, Ngurra Wardingki
examines issues of reconciliation through the dreamings of various Australian
animals and their relationships with the Yapa (Walpiri Aboriginal
people)
Poseidon
- An Ancient Greek Myth -
Poseidon challenges Athene as to who should rule Athens. They petition
Zeus who allows the gods to decide. Ideal as a practical supplement
to a Greek Drama course
Shu,
Shaku, Sho - Japanese Nö Theatre
-
The Emperor sees a demure heron by a lake and orders it to himself.
His ministers doubt his sway over Nature, doubt which questions the
laws of Bhudda and Nature
Solitaire
- Commedia delÁrte
- There is a war brewing in a deck of cards, Kings and Queens are at
each others’ throats – but the Jacks love Jackettes of opposite
suits. Incorporating Commedia characters, this play has scope for individual
Lazzi
The
Birds - Aristophanes’ Ancient
Greek Classic
- Upon the advice of some foolish old men, the birds build a city in
the air and come between the gods and humanity. Soon people are petitioning
the birds and the gods become jealous…
Argonautical
- A Modern Greek Myth -
In a closed Hellenic museum, a group of teens uncover a statue of Jason
and the Argonauts. Stylistically utilising material as object transformation,
the teens enact the story, escaping with the golden fleece
