Outcomes:
Investigate inspiration and departure points for dramatic work.
Explore a variety of genres, styles and performance practices.
Demonstrate the purposeful use of artistic voice to communicate perspective.
Investigate a creative process for building a play or scene from devised material.
Present and sustain a performance for an audience (e.g., peers, invited guests, public).
Outcomes:
Respond critically, using appropriate theatrical language, to student and/or professional work and genres.
Investigate educational opportunities for theatre artists in Saskatchewan, and examine possible careers and training paths.
Outcomes:
Examine dramatic performance and theatre history from a variety of traditions.
Examine how drama represents human experience and impacts individuals.
Research the role of storytelling and oral history in an Indigenous culture, past or present, and, respecting protocols, use this learning to inspire own stories and dramatic work.
Outcomes:
Use storytelling in own dramatic work.
Demonstrate and use a variety of genres, styles and performance practices.
Investigate artistic voice and perspectives of the “other” (e.g., marginalized individuals and communities, silenced people in history, powerful figures, celebrities, extraterrestrials, fictional characters) through works of dramatic art.
Investigate a creative process for building a play.
Present and sustain a performance for an audience (e.g., peers, invited guests, public) that considers the combination of artistic and technical components.
Outcomes:
Respond critically, using appropriate theatrical language, to live performances (e.g., student work, professional or community theatre).
Research the specifics of working in theatre and/or film, including performance and career opportunities in Saskatchewan.
Outcomes:
Examine, and explore in own work, one or more theatre traditions.
Examine the influence of social, cultural, environmental and personal contexts on drama.
Explore how Indigenous perspectives and ways of knowing, including local cultural knowledge, impact the creation of dramatic work.
Outcomes:
Use world theatre traditions to inspire ideas for own dramatic work.
Create dramatic work demonstrating use of genre and style.
Express a multiplicity of voices and perspectives (e.g., self, family, community, marginalized individuals, silenced people in history, powerful figures, celebrities, extraterrestrials, fictional characters) through works of dramatic art.
Demonstrate directorial choices for a performance that utilizes oral or written text and/or devised material.
Present and sustain a performance for an audience (e.g., peers, invited guests, public) that demonstrates innovation (e.g., aesthetic and technical).
Outcomes:
Respond critically, using appropriate theatrical language, to directorial choices in a variety of performance experiences (e.g., live, digital).
Examine the purpose of theatre in societies.
Outcomes:
Research and experiment with contemporary theatre practices.
Examine the role of the theatre and artists as potential agents of social change.
Research contemporary and/or current theatre practices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis artists in Canada.