drama

• Lion King Lyceum Theatre London 30th November 2023 Grand Circle


  Key moments
• Tech elements


  • Rotating stage
  • Raked stage
  • Lighting
  • Puppetry
  • Costume
  • Music sound effects
  • Flight work
• Lighting


  • Used to highlight emotions and locations
  • Side lights for scar to create shadows and evil sinister feel
  • Colour's - warm yellows/cold blues/green when Simba meets Timone and Pumba
• Staging


  1. Trap door = Mufasa grave/pond/rafiki enters through tree

  2. Grass on heads

  3. Grass along floor

  4. Structures that slide on and off (Scars bed which is replaced with bones in second act 2)

  5. Projections on floor (Water hole dries up)
• Chorus of dancers


  • Become local people start of second act
  • They become puppeteers for animals
  • Nala leaves to find help and discovers Simba alive
• Comedy moments


  • References to Frozen from Zazu
  • Hakuna Mutata
  • Rafiki on the rope swing
• Stimulus


  A poem, quote, song with lyrics on a particular theme, or a picture that is used as inspiration in Drama
• Theatre types


  • Proscenium arch
  • Theatre in the round
  • End on
  • Traverse
• Practitioners


  • Stanislavski uses realism
  • Brecht uses episodic and breaking the fourth wall to educate the audience
  • Frantic assembly uses physical theatre movement to help the narrative
  • Gecko uses physical theatre with focus on meditation and the breath
• Practitioners and Theatre companies from HT1

  • Stanislavski
  • Brecht
  • Frantic assembly
  • Berkoff
  • DV8
• Constantin Stanislavski


  Russian actor and director who developed Method acting
• The fourth wall


  The line between the audience and the actors on stage, Stanislavski didn't believe actors should break this line, but keep the circle of attention their side of the acting space
• A slice of life


  Stanislavski believed a play should show an audience an example of life and reality
• Realism in acting


  Actors create realism through becoming the character on stage by researching everyday people and copying their mannerism and role in life
• Real time in performance


  A play that has no time changes the events we see happen in real time
• Linear


  A common plot structure, with plot being defined as "the series of events that move a story." Plot structures of this sort are considered linear narratives—events are presented to the audience in the order that they occur
• Frantic Assembly


  Company of physical theatre actors founded in 1994
• Artistic director


  This position involves overseeing all aspects of the production of the organisation, such as assessing and selecting the performances that will be shown, recruiting actors and performers, setting production schedules as well managing budgets
• Ethos of Frantic Assembly


  Collaboration and empowerment of the constant desire to improve and make topical performance work 'telling stories in a voice we don't always hear'
• Devising concepts used by Frantic Assembly

  • Hymn hands, round by through, chair duets
• Frantic Assembly performance: Things I know to be true
• Collaboration


  Where people work together to produce something
• Bertolt Brecht


  German theatre practitioner and playwright
• Epic theatre


  Non-linear episodic, with use of montage effects
• Brecht's approach to actors showing character

  He wanted the audience to know they are just watching an actor portraying a character and to see that actor become the character, this was known as the alienation technique
• Epic theatre


  Distances the audience from becoming emotionally involved and requires the audience to think about the big issues in the performance and become aware of these issues in their lives
• Why Brecht breaks the fourth wall


  To stop the narrative flow and often inserting song or political comment to draw the attention to the theatre making process itself
• Montage


  Fragments of pictures, text, or music
• Stephen Berkoff


  English actor, director, and practitioner
• Berkoff's focus in performance work

  Wanted the focus to be on the actor's use of body and physical development such as mime exaggeration and improvisation
• Berkoff's use of mask and heavy makeup


  To create an eerie effect, and to take away the sense of character from the actor so they focus on the abstract movement
• Berkoff is from Stepney, London
• Berkoff trained in Drama and Mime in London and Paris, and entered a series of repertory companies and formed The London theatre group in 1968
• Stylised


  A distinctive design or appearance
• DV8


  A physical theatre company that used dance to tell a story. DV8 officially ended in April 2022 when Lloyd Newson announced his retirement via the company web page
• DV8's intention


  To communicate ideas and feelings clearly with a focus on socio-political issues
• DV8 performance watched in lesson: The Cost-of-Living VOSTFR DV8 Physical Theatre
• Elements incorporated by DV8

  • Film
  • Dance
  • Physical theatre
  • Mime
  • Text
• 4 skills developed in physical theatre

  • Physical Theatre skills: lifting, carrying, building shape and physical objects, balance
  • Movement skills: travelling, jumping, landing
  • Working with content: telling stories physically, use of mime
  • Showing attitude, emotions and facial expression
• Physical Theatre


  A type of performance where physical movement is the primary method of storytelling