A power point outlining the key concepts, historical information and practical activities of 5 practitioners.
Stanislavsky, Brecht, Lecoq, Berkoff, Artaud.
The information has been collated from various my experiences, books and information online.
It was created with the year 13 unit 4 preparation in mind. Specifically for section A on Lysistrata.
It can be adapted to suit any group.
6 lessons exploring Artaud, his history and tasks revevant to his practice. This work is designed to be delivered to Year 12 but could be shown to a high ability year 11
It is ready for action, starters, lesson objectives and plenaries
7-8 lessons introducing 3 practitioners - Stanislavsky, Brecht, Artaud, to Year 9 students. After the introduction of each practitioner over 2 weeks, the unit finishes with a presentation.
6 lessons exploring Berkoff , his history and tasks revevant to his practice. This work is designed to be delivered to Year 12 but could be shown to a high ability year 11
It is ready for action, starters, lesson objectives and plenaries
I also have a range of other practitioners too…
6 lessons exploring Stanislavski, his history and tasks revevant to his practice. This work is designed to be delivered to Year 12 but could be shown to a high ability year 11
It is ready for action, starters, lesson objectives and plenaries
I also have a range of other practitioners too…
Design elements inspired from other work
SOW introducing the students to the theatre practitioners Stanislavski, Brecht, Berkoff and Artaud. Students will spend two lessons on each practitioner rehearsing their influences on theatre to enable them to reach the higher levels should they continue with Drama at GCSE level. Students are assessed on Devising, Performance and Writing in this half term.
Texts and resources needed:
Self-Assessment sheets, SOW Assessment grids,
Assessment outcomes and criteria:
• Written Assessment: Students in 9Ldr1 – 9Ldr3 will be expected to keep a log book of everything they have completed in lessons before completing comparison questions on the practitioners. Students in 9Ldr4 – 9Ldr6 will just be completing a written self assessment this half term.
• Practical Assessment: Students to be assessed on their performing ability in front of the class and their ability to perform in the style of a theatre practitioner. Assessment is practical and as part of mixed ability group.
• Devising Assessment: Students to be assessed on their ability to devise a performance.
• Variety of peer and self-assessment opportunities when practicing and performing during lessons.
A good Starter bundle focusing on Drama Practitioners.
Contains Powerpoints and starter activities on various the Drama Practitioners.
It includes:
John Godber
Augusto Boal
Bertolt Brecht
Frantic Assembly
Jerzy Grotowski
Mike Leigh
Constantin Stanislavski
Antonin Artaud
This pack provides an overview of 7 influential and innovative Drama
Practitioners who would be useful for A-Level and GCSE Drama students to explore.
Practitioners included are Stanislavski, Brecht, Artaud, Boal, Berkoff, Pina Bausch and Katie Mitchell.
Each knowledge organiser/poster provides the following:
Facts About Me (Key dates and job roles)
What I’m Known For (Summary of their style, techniques and processes)
Quote Me On This (Range of useful quotations from the practitioner themselves related to theatre and their work)
Some of My Best Known Work (Two images of their work)
These highly visual resources are ideal for printing and displaying in the classroom, studio as well as distributing to students for revision, handouts, supporting workshops or blended/home learning.
You will receive a high quality pdf document as well as a JPEG of each.
This 12 slide PowerPoint explores the essential elements of The Paper Birds Theatre style.
With practical tasks as well as in-depth information, these lessons (which can spand over 4 hours) will help ensure students fully understand his style.
The lessons are structured to help students not only understand the style, aims and techniques but also how to devise their own work within the style.
Essential for any GCSE/ BTEC/ A Level/ IB Drama and Theatre student.
This bundle is great for an introduction to GCSE Drama; skills and practitioners and everything they need to know to be successful on the course!
Some colleagues have taught this at the end of KS3 in preparation for students who are starting GCSE Drama.
You save a massive 33% by buying this in a bundle!
A workshop on the history, artistic policy and techniques of DV8. The workshop was designed to be used over three lessons although could be adapted to suit more or less. It consists of information about DV8, warm ups, short tasks based on their techniques that include music and links to DV8 videos. It looks into 4 different DV8 projects and includes links to short clips.
The workshop culminates in students creating their own piece in the style of DV8.
This is a 7-lesson SoW complete with a full scheme outline as well as all resources, links, PPTs etc. that you will need to take students through an introduction to Brecht, the ‘V’ effect and a full range of his techniques. It’s been designed for Year 9 as they move towards GCSE level, but could just as easily be used at the beginning of Year 10 for the same purpose.
Please do leave a positive review if you purchase and enjoy it! :)
This scheme of work explores three key practitioners; Bertolt Brecht, Konstanin Stanislavski and Antonin Artaud.
The lessons explore each practitioners style, aims and allows students to compare them to one another.
There is a predominant focus of Brecht to help students develop deeper understanding in preparation for GCSE.
7 lessons 6 on a different practitioner in theatre. Very basis stuff as it is meant to be an introduction to the concept of different practitioners in drama.
Purpose is to allow students to widen their perception of the reasons drama is how it is.
An introduction from KS3 - KS4 of different practitioners, styles and genres. It comes with a baseline assessment, lighting terminology quiz, X Lessons and an assessment at the end of it where they can put their knowledge into practice.
These are theory based sessions so they can work in classrooms. Workshops are not included but creative tasks under the influence of the practitioner are.
Practitioners include:
Brecht
Stanislavski
Artaud
Brooke
Boal
Frantic Assembly
A PowerPoint presentation made for Black History Month in order to spotlight various Black British directors, actors, playwrights and theatre companies.
This is an introductory presentation to practitioners. The practitioners within this presentation include Stanislavsky, Artaud, Theatre de Complicité, Paper Birds and Frantic Assembly. The content of this presentation will include the methods/techniques of the practitioners, brief anecdotes of putting their methods into practice, teacher assessed coursework with teacher markings and an account of my experience of a Frantic Assembly workshop.
Introduction to Punchdrunk GCSE Practitioner Year 9 lesson with immersive ‘Teacher-In-Role’ activity/ script.
Learning objectives:-
To introduce students to the immersive-based theatre practitioner ‘Punch Drunk’ and for them to understand the type of theatre, explorative strategies they use to create it, including set/ movement, and their key goals of how they want the audience to feel.
**Differentiation Opportunities: **
Group confident students with those of a shy/ less able disposition.