Drama Performance Techniques/ Billy Elliot Performance Assessment

Drama Performance Techniques/ Billy Elliot Performance Assessment:

Students will choose three different scenes and three different characters from Billy Elliot in tryouts for the roles, by showing an understanding and empathy for the characters, incorporating appropriate emotions with their best abilities applying both sincerity and authenticity. The will act out three different characters from the three different scenes of choice and be given two changes for each interpretation.

Prior to this students will create portfolio of research and background details of the times, and they will connect and apply research of the history of these times whether they can develop empathy and understandings to the different characters of the story, their positions and their passionate roles through these short portfolios. They will evolve the elements of the coals miners, and understand the statistics, and as said before, use facts that how in 1984, there were more than 300,000 men working in the industry, and how today they are less than 1000 workers in England. They will show with their expressions emotional and in stage dramatics and demonstrate what they have learned about moral an ethical positions of the culture and politics, considering the fact that currently more than 98% of coal used for British Energy is now imported from abroad. They will interpret through stage dramatics the intimidations of the characters and the alternative side of judgments that may have against the young aspiring dancer through theatrics.

In addition to the theatrical tryouts/test, the students will use research and understanding of the conditions of the times to design small scale scene settings and designs, that would effectively represent the time periods and the characters involved in the story of Billy Elliot. The will use information about union workers, state workers, police states, and the prime ministries control over incomes and profits, and implicate the devastations and hopes through the miniature creations of two different scene settings of there choice. The will create settings, features, and structures of the conditions that would exist in real time for the stories. Any materials can be used and sizes of stage settings can be fit into a medium size cardboard box.

(Each elements is worth 25 points, making a total of 75 points total for performance assessment.)