PERFORMANCE STYLES
What is a Performance Style?
A Performance Style (aka Theatrical styles), is the way in which the plot or theme is conveyed in a performance. There are many different types of performance styles, each manipulating conventions and stagecraft elements for a particular dramatic purpose. Performance styles have evolved and developed over time.
Click here for a Interactive Theatre History Timeline
Click here for a Interactive Theatre History Timeline
What are Conventions?
Things done on stage by the actors, that contribute to an overall performance style. These are techniques what are associated with a performance style or many performance styles.
Non-Naturalistic (Theatrical) Conventions
The essential four in the VCE Drama course require students to demonstrate:
Non-Naturalistic (Theatrical) Conventions
The essential four in the VCE Drama course require students to demonstrate:
- transformation of character
- transformation of place
- transformation of object (prop/item of costume)
- disjointed time sequences
- stillness and silence
- dramatic irony
- exaggerated movement
- song
- caricature
- heightened use of language
- dramatic metaphor
- satire/comedy
- pathos
- freeze frame
- flashback
- dramatic metaphor
- fatal flaw
- lyrical
- live sound effects
- direct audience address
- fragmentary costume
- placards and signs
- narration
- fragmentary set pieces
- multimedia