Theatre Arts 20, 30

(a)	Discuss purposes of technical theatre design (e.g., set, properties, lighting, sound, costume, hair and makeup) including creative functions and practical considerations.
(b)	Conduct an inquiry into the history and evolution of technical theatre design, exploring questions such as: How do theatre artists and companies create other worlds on stage? What lighting was used in spaces and theatres before the advent of electricity?
(c)	Research early technical theatre including conventions (e.g., historic play formats, cultural traditions) and evolution of stage machinery (e.g., engineers such as Adolphe Appia, moveable scenery, flying machines, hydraulic stages, traps).
(d)	Examine technical theatre practices from the 1800s (e.g., early special effects, wind machines, waves, elevator stages).
(e)	Experiment with elements of technical theatre (e.g., world theatre, Western) using design practices such as thumbnail sketches, renderings and/or models.
(f)	Apply ideas, inspired by the history of technical theatre, to own work (e.g., surrealist set, 1940s costumes and hair, Greek or Italian masks, live sound effects).
(g)	Conduct an inquiry into technical theatre practices, such as those used in: French restoration theatre (e.g., naval battles, spectacle); different kinds of early staging (e.g., acoustics of amphitheaters); East Indian theatre and dance; Japanese Kabuki theatre; bear fights in English theatre; mask making; Italian theatre; outdoor theatre spaces; and, storytelling venues.
(h)	Examine the effects of theatrical or playing space locations, architectures and stage configurations (e.g., outdoor, in the round, site- specific, thrust stages, arena stages, black-box, platform, shoebox) on audiences and consider how these diverse contexts impact technical theatre practices.
(i)	Explore the role of technical teams when working with collaboratively-devised theatrical performances.
(j)	Discuss challenges of early theatrical performances that didn’t have access to technology.
(k)	Examine how artistic desires have created technological innovations (e.g., Cirque du Soleil using aerospace engineers to solve artistic problems).

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