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Unit 3 AOS1 — How can we use drama to challenge our understanding of humanity?
Unit 3 examines the social power of theatre in contemporary and historical cultural contexts, including Aboriginal cultures, Torres Strait Islander cultures and/or Asia-Pacific cultures. Theatre of Social Comment styles use dramatic languages to educate, challenge, empower or entertain audiences in political, sociological or philosophical contexts. Work with the fourteen elements of drama, forms and styles, conventions and stagecraft such as blocking, sightlines, cues, stage types and production elements. Purpose, text, dramatic context and audience shape the action and meaning.
Unit 4 AOS1 — How can you transform dramatic practice?
Unit 4 transforms inherited dramatic practice for contemporary audiences. Greek theatre, Elizabethan theatre and Neoclassicism provide historical, sociological and political contexts for reframing text, meaning and purpose. Contemporary performance may privilege image over spoken text through physical, visual, hybrid or non-linear forms. Students consider the evolution of practice in diverse cultures, forms and structures, directorial vision and stagecraft, and document how dramatic languages shape a new interpretation.
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