Drama+Year+13

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//** Drama Year 13 **//

// "All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists." -Stephen Sondheim //
Research for **External 3.4:** Demonstrate Knowledge of Theatre Form or Period. Use the attached files as a starter for developing your knowledge of Brecht. Add to this with further research. This is on-going but you can use these starters as a way of catching up on work. Bertolt Brecht is one of the most influential theatre practitioners of the 20th Century. Just about every dramatist has been influenced by his ideas since he developed them in Communist East Germany. One play of his that we will be studying is //Mother Courage and Her Children.// The more you understand his ideas before we tackle the text, the better.
 * Brecht & Political Theatre **

Life Magazine has plenty of images of Brecht's Berliner Ensemble here.

**Just for Starters 3.3** Solo paired or trio performance from a devised script (Term 1 /2). The standard document is here. (We have amended this) 

Sparks notes has a breakdown of characters, scenes, etc. A very good starting point. [|The link is here.]
 * Theatre of the Absurd **

This is a very good set of pages on [|Godot]. Useful stuff!

Here is a detailed handout on Theatre of the Absurd:

**Course Book** Below is the course book you were issued with at the start of the year. 

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