PERF200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intertextuality
PERF200 Lecture Notes Friday 25th August 2017
Readers Theatre Scripting and Staging
- You dot hae to ritiall aalse a tet for a readers theatre perforae. It is a
aesthetic experience
Eleets of readers theatre
- A sharing of text using modified theatrical conventions to draw attention to the
words and ideas being shared.
o The words are important
- An oral reading where a group of readers share the text with others. Your script is in
your hand
- The aim is to help listeners visualise the action of a story in their minds
Adapting text to script
- The outstadig features of readers theatre is ho ou rig the tet to life
- Important to select text children will respond to
- Memorable characters
- An active storyline
- Vivid language
Guided by a number of important tenets
- Text remains how it was written
- No hages eept for ueeded speeh suh as he said
- Generally both narration and dialogue
- Switching of roles
- Layering of poem and text is common – intertextuality
- The nature of the script will determine how the divisions are made
- Sound effects can be made by the readers, or by technology
Staging the script
- Whe stagig readers theatre, othig should detrat fro the isual field of the
audience
- Vocal expression and movement must be dynamic
- Realism is not the goal. Its melodramatic
- Readers can be positioned in the theatre space to show relationships and status
- Children can use their bodies to represent props. E.g. a child can become a table.
Characterisation through voice and movement
- I readers theatre, the oie is the essetial tool used to aiate the ords for the
audience
- Qualit oie, toe, pith ad olue are paraout for reatig ords iages ad
pitures for the audiee
- Voices may blend, be out of sync, rise and fall, strident or confronting and signal
changes in mood, character, place or time.
Costumes and props
- The goal for the audience is to listen
- Simple props that signify characters
- Costumes should all be one colour
- Chairs ake readers theatre orig. Standing is more interesting. Allows better use
of voice work.
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