Conventions
This convention involves performers speaking directly to the audience rather than pretending the audience isn't there.
What is direct address?
This element refers to where performers and objects are positioned in relation to one another on stage.
What is space?
This stagecraft area controls what the audience can see through intensity, colour, direction and timing.
What is lighting?
This style uses real people's words and experiences as the basis for performance.
What is Verbatim Theatre?
This skill involves using your body, posture, gesture and facial expression to communicate meaning.
What is physical expression?
In Epic Theatre, this convention deliberately interrupts the action to remind the audience that they are watching a constructed performance.
What is alienation?
The audience's attention is directed towards one performer who remains completely still while the rest of the ensemble moves around them. Which element is being deliberately manipulated?
What is focus?
A performance uses distorted recordings of wind, insects and distant voices to make an Australian landscape feel threatening. Which stagecraft area is most directly involved?
What is sound?
Which style deliberately disrupts naturalistic storytelling and may use repetition, circular structures and breakdowns in communication?
What is Theatre of the Absurd?
This skill involves changing pitch, pace, volume and tone to communicate meaning through the voice.
What is vocal expression?
This convention involves one actor playing more than one character during a performance.
What is multiple role taking?
This element refers to the use of speed, stillness, gesture, posture and physical expression by performers.
What is movement?
This stagecraft area includes clothing, hairstyles, makeup and accessories used by performers.
What is costume?
A performance presents a recognisable Australian setting, but supernatural or impossible events occur and are treated as ordinary. Which style is this?
What is Magical Realism?
This skill involves working effectively with other performers to create a unified performance.
What is ensemble skills?
This convention involves performers using their bodies to create objects, settings or characters rather than relying on realistic props or scenery.
What is transformation of place/object?
This element refers to the emotional and sensory quality created within a scene that influences how the audience experiences it.
What is mood and atmosphere?
This stagecraft area involves the design and use of the physical environment in which a performance takes place.
What is set design?
A performance uses an oppressive Australian landscape, isolation, unease, secrets and a threat that may remain ambiguous. Which style or genre is being drawn upon?
What is Australian Gothic?
This skill involves trying different performance choices to discover what works most effectively.
What is experimentation?
This convention involves presenting a story through a sequence of separate episodes or scenes rather than one continuous narrative.
What is episodic structure?
This element refers to what keeps the audience interested and creates anticipation or uncertainty.
What is tension?
This stagecraft area includes objects handled or used by performers during a performance.
What are props?
Which style uses direct address, episodic structure and techniques designed to prevent the audience becoming completely immersed in the story?
What is Epic Theatre?
This skill involves looking back at a performance or rehearsal, identifying what worked and what could be improved.
What is evaluation/reflection?