Year 7

Forming an evaluative response for live theatre

In this lesson, we will look more at design elements in live theatre, and start to evaluate the overall success of elements used together.

Year 7

Forming an evaluative response for live theatre

In this lesson, we will look more at design elements in live theatre, and start to evaluate the overall success of elements used together.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, students will develop written responses to the short extracts of theatre productions they have seen in this unit. Using specialist terminology, they will construct responses analysing and beginning to evaluate the work they have seen.

Content guidance

  • Physical activity required.

Supervision

Adult supervision recommended

Licence

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5 Questions

Q1.
What does 'describe' mean?
To come to a final judgement about something.
To explain why things have happened.
Correct answer: To give an accurate account of something in detail.
Q2.
Analyse means....
To come to a final judgement about something.
Correct answer: To examine something in detail and explain why choices were made.
To state facts about something.
Q3.
Who wrote the play A Midsummer Night's Dream?
David Walliams.
JK Rowling.
Correct answer: William Shakespeare.
Q4.
If something is 'effective' it is...
Not very well thought out.
Correct answer: Successful and works well.
Symbolic of something.
Q5.
Who is responsible for designing the props and items that appear on stage, such as furniture and scenery?
A musician.
Correct answer: A set designer.
An actor.

5 Questions

Q1.
To evaluate means...
Correct answer: To come to a judgement about the success of something.
To give an accurate account of something.
To interrogate something.
Q2.
What did the use of the colour green connote in the scene we looked at today?
Anger and hate.
Correct answer: Nature and the forest.
Nausea.
Q3.
How did Titania appear on the stage?
Correct answer: On a swing operated on a fly system.
She walked.
Through a trapdoor.
Q4.
The use of levels in the scene could have suggested...
That the audience were only meant to look at her.
That the designer was very creative.
Correct answer: That Titania was a higher status character.
Q5.
Where are the audience in an 'in the round' stage?
Following the actors around.
Correct answer: On all sides of the stage.
On two sides of the stage.