Outcome 3 Analysing Non-Naturalistic Performance

In this area of study students focus on an analysis of a performance that uses non-naturalistic performance styles selected from the prescribed VCE Drama Unit 3 Playlist. Students analyse the ways that characters are represented in the performance. They also observe and analyse actors’ use of performance and expressive skills. They consider how the actor–audience relationship is created and manipulated as well as the ways dramatic elements, conventions and stagecraft are used in the performance.

Outcome 3

On completion of this unit the student should be able to analyse and evaluate a non-naturalistic performance.

To achieve this outcome the student will draw on key knowledge and key skills outlined in Area of Study 3.

Key knowledge:

• The ways in which non-naturalistic performance styles and conventions are used in performance
  
  
• The ways in which characters are represented in non-naturalistic performance through the actors’
   use of expressive skills
  
  
• The ways in which dramatic elements, conventions and stagecraft are manipulated to enhance non- naturalistic performance
  
  
• Drama terminology associated with performance styles, traditions, and practitioners from contemporary and cultural traditions relevant to non-naturalistic performance.
  
  

Key skills :

• Analyse the representation of characters within a non-naturalistic performance 
  
• Analyse and evaluate the manipulation of dramatic elements, conventions and stagecraft within a non-naturalistic performance 
• Analyse non-naturalistic performance styles within a production. 
  
  
• Analyse and evaluate the use of expressive and performance skills in non-naturalistic performance. 
  
  
• Analyse and evaluate establishment and maintenance of the actor–audience relationship in a non-naturalistic performance.
  
  
• Use drama terminology appropriately to analyse and evaluate a non-naturalistic performance.
  
  
  

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