Conventions explored throughout Black Diggers
Give an example of signposting
Whitewashing/Names/Dates/The cross
What is mood?
Mood is the overall feeling or emotion that a performance can evoke. This may be achieved through manipulation of acting, conventions or stagecraft.
Name that theme: The Aboriginal soldiers portrayed in Black Diggers suffer discrimination not only from the Australian state, but also from other people they encounter, Australians and non-Australians alike, in their everyday lives.
Racism
How many elements of drama should you explain and analyse?
At least two!
Where is the city Munich located?
Germany
Name a song that was used beyond the world of the play.
The world's turned upside down
Lazarus
What symbol does the gallon drum with flames emanating symbolise?
The eternal drum - a gathering space where stories are shared
Name that theme: Like many war stories, Black Diggers confronts the acts of senseless and extreme violence that forever transform its subjects’ lives, leaving them traumatised and stuck in the past once they turn from soldiers into veterans.
War, Violence, and Shell Shock
What does IDAES stand for?
Identify
Describe
Analyse
Evaluate
Synthesise
Who plays Jake in 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine'?
Andy Samberg
Name a moment where direct address/monologue was used throughout the performance
Laurie on the boat/The ghost/Bloke with a glass/Minister delivering eulogy/Ern as an old soldier.
What becomes a repeated spacial motif throughout the performance?
The trench - Explore how the soldiers are splayed throughout the image recurring.
Name that theme: One motivation behind the initial production of Black Diggers was the necessity of publicly honoring a previously forgotten group of men who played a central role in both Indigenous Australian history and the Australian military effort in World War I.
History, Memory, and the Archive
What does key moments mean?
Key - relevant and pertinent to the production
Moments - selection of examples or sections of dramatic action.
What is the collective noun for a group of hyenas?
A cackle of hyenas.
Give an example of when stylised movement was used and explain the characteristics of the use of movement.
Officials in enlistment scene - Exaggerated gestures - Staring back at boys, use of books.
What element of drama has been used to showcase the sharing of christian faith and respect among two soldiers despite their status.
Language - Sharing of scriptures
A desire of equality is shared among the characters prior to enlisting, they are not able to experience it until they are in the army.
Equality and belonging.
What do you need to do when evaluating and justifying the use of a convention?
Provide valid and convincing judgments on how effectively the key convention is manipulated to communicate the concept.
Name the 7 continents?
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antartica, Europe and Australia. Acronym is: Always Eat An Apple, Says A Nurse.
What is letter narration? Provide an example and discuss the interrelationship between dramatic action and meaning.
The use of verbatim to drive plot and extend or highlight the voices of the soldiers who are represented throughout the performance.
There are two types of overall tension that have been manipulated throughout the performance. What are they, provide an example and explain the characteristics of the use of tension.
Dependant of the scene.
- Scouting scene
- White soldier realises Ern is Aboriginal
- Mick punches out racist Trinidadians
- Franks Death
- Archie killing soldier
- Bertie gets off boat
- Arguing about the land.
Name that theme: Black Diggers tells the tale of a decision at once contradictory and extraordinary: that of thousands of Indigenous Australians to fight in World War I for the same white settler colonial government that massacred them and stole their lands.
Australian Nationhood and Indigenous Dispossession
What is the definition of interrelationships?
Interrelationships are complex and/or intertwined relationships between elements and conventions.
A container without hinges, lock or a key, yet a golden treasure lies inside me.
What am I?
Egg