Year

10 Playbuilding Choice Board

In this unit we will be exploring playbuilding: how to create an original performance. In this task you
will have 3 lessons this week to complete at least 3 of the tasks from the choice board bellow. At the
end of each lesson you are to present to the class what you have created.
In each performance consider audience arrangement (ie. Proscenium, theatre-in-the-round, thrust,
promenade, etc.)

Interpersonal-social Verbal-linguistic Intrapersonal-intuitive

In groups of 4 or 5, choose a In groups of 2 or 3, your task Individually, reflect on your

disadvantaged minority within to be a salesperson and involvement and learning
Australia and explore how convince the audience to buy a within one of the previous
modern society dismisses and ridiculous and useless product. tasks you’ve completed. What
alienates them. Eg: the Think of the task as creating an dramatic techniques did you
homeless... Consider using infomercial, for products such use? How did the techniques
status and Theatre of the as the ‘shoe umbrella’. support your storytelling?
Absurd techniques to depict What did you do well in the
the story. rehearsal/performance? What
would you like to improve on
for next time?

Visual-spatial Bodily-kinaesthetic Musical-rhythmic

Individually, take an Aboriginal In groups of 4 or 5, use three In groups of 4 or 5 create a

Dreamtime story and create a historical images given to you, radio play. Your task is to use
storyboard as if you were recreate them as tableaus. vocal sounds, and whatever
directing a film adaptation. These tableaus will inform you can find in the room, to
Consider camera angles and your scene and act as a create a soundscape for your
character perspectives to draw beginning, middle and end. radio play. The story must be
attention to the message and You will need to justify why clear to the audience with
meaning you are trying to your characters are in those their eyes closed.
convey to your audience. positions and the part they
play within the story. This is a
non-verbal scene.

Intrapersonal-social Musical-rhythmic Intrapersonal-intuitive

In groups of 4 or 5, take one of In groups of 4 or 5, create a Choose a group to try your

the supplied newspaper non-verbal scene that depicts hand at directing. Your task is
articles on a recent global a sports match gone wrong. to observe their rehearsal and
tragedy, tell the story through There must be a clear offer constructive feedback for
the perspective of people beginning, a conflict, a climax, their performance. Things to
involved, using Greek Theatre and the resolution; the music consider: positioning on stage,
techniques (such as: chorus, score must support this levels, characterisation, vocal
tableaus, levels, etc). progression. use, physicality, structure (is
there a beginning, middle and
end?), and is their message
clear?