CURRICULUM LINKS
Gothic Theatre, Transformation of a classical text, Contemporary Performance
DRAMATIC FORMS & STYLES
Gothic Theatre, Magical Realism, Ensemble Theatre, Contemporary Performance, Physical Theatre, Text transformation
DRAMATIC CONVENTIONS
Hybridity – Gothic, Magical Realism, Physical, Ensemble, Surreal transformations, Symbolic use of props, Song and sound to create atmosphere.
GENERAL CAPABILITIES
Ethical Understanding, Literacy, Critical & Creative Thinking, Personal & Social Capability
DRAMA SUBJECT CONNECTIONS
An ideal example of Gothic Theatre for your students. Through Shake & Stir’s unique approach to storytelling your students will witness the thrill of Gothic Theatre and Magical Realism helping to deepen their understanding and providing an excellent example of how a text can be transformed for the stage.
ENGLISH SUBJECT CONNECTIONS
A Gothic text which has haunted its audience throughout history, Shake & Stir’s stage adaptation of Dracula will theatrically inspire and deepen students’ understanding of the novel or provide an example of contemporary theatre with no prior knowledge necessary. Students can compare and contrast the text and play, exploring the themes and issues presented, in a masterclass of suspense and Gothic thrills.
Australian Curriculum Links (V9)
Year 10 – English
- AC9E10LA01 - Understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people
- AC9E10LA02 - Understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly reveals an individual’s values
- AC9E10LA07 - Analyse representations of individuals, groups and places and evaluate how they reflect their context in literary texts by world authors
- AC9E10LE02 - Reflect on and extend others’ interpretations of and responses to literature
- AC9E10LE03 - Analyse how the aesthetic qualities associated with text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features, and the context in which these texts are experienced, influence audience response
- AC9E10LE04 - Evaluate the social, moral or ethical positions represented in literature
- AC9E10LE05 - Analyse how text structure, language features, literary devices and intertextual connections shape interpretations of texts
- AC9E10LE06 - Compare and evaluate how “voice” as a literary device is used in different types of texts, such as poetry, novels and film, to evoke emotional responses
- AC9E10LE07 - Analyse and evaluate the aesthetic qualities of texts
- AC9E10LY01 - Analyse and evaluate how people, places, events and concepts are represented in texts and reflect contexts
- AC9E10LY03 - Analyse and evaluate how language features are used to implicitly or explicitly represent values, beliefs and attitudes
Year 9 and 10 – DRAMA
- AC9ADR10E01 - Investigate use of elements of drama, performance skills and/or conventions to communicate and/or challenge ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in drama across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts
- AC9ADR10D01 - Develop performance skills and/or techniques to manipulate elements of drama and/or use conventions to communicate the physical and psychological aspects of roles and characters consistent with intentions
- AC9ADR10D02 - Reflect on their own and others’ drama or practices to refine and inform their use of elements of drama, conventions and/or approaches to shape and sustain dramatic action
QLD Senior - Drama and English
General Drama
- UNIT 2: REFLECT - Students explore the representational dramatic traditions of Realism, then investigate more contemporary dramatic styles associated with the realist style, such as Magical Realism, including Gothic Theatre.
- Unit 4: TRANSFORM - The unit involves students manipulating and shaping the dramatic languages to reframe text, purpose, context and meaning, drawing on conventions and philosophies of Contemporary performance. Students re-imagine, adapt and transform texts.
Drama in Practice
Core Topic 1: Dramatic principles
Assessment Links: Stimulus for Extended Response, Sample of work for Investigation or Project assessment.
Senior General English
Unit 1: Perspectives and texts, Unit 2: Texts and culture, Unit 3: Textual connections
Senior Literature
Close study, text adaptation, Gothic literature and Imaginative responses.
Unit 1: Introduction to Literary Studies, Unit 2: Intertextuality, Unit 3: Literature and Identity, Unit 4: Independent explorations
