The Tempest

I couldn’t put the Subject are Theatre Studies.
CREATE A DOCUMENT OF: NOTES/RESEARCH/INVESTIGATION (DOCUMENT)
1. Look at the use of designs in these two productions.
The Tempest RSC (Royal Shakespeare company) Production as Digital Theatre and
The Tempest theatre in video, Alexander Street (MELBAR ENTERTAINMENT Directed by Des McEnuff 2012)
(I am gong to send you both soon)
Use these questions to prompt your experience of these productions

TAKE NOTES, ANALYSIS, SKETCH, SCREENSHOT – WHILE YOU WATCH!

SOME PROMPTS!

What moments most engage you? What is happening visually in these moments?

What choices were made to create a “visual world” for the production?

What do we learn about this world through visual communication?

Do you feel the world on stage supports the world in the play?

Do you feel the visual manifestation of this world assists the storytelling?

What greater themes/questions in the play does the overall design investigate?

How successful is the design in helping you as the audience member as questions and respond to the challenges of the play?

How is the theatre a part of this play? How does the use of the theatre space/ or theatricality support this inherent aspect of The Tempest?

What is the palette of the production? What are your thoughts on this?

What makes this production easy to understand? engaging? provocative?

What moments in watching the production make you think about larger ideas/issues of the time? What questions does the production of the play ask? are these the same or different then the questions the play is asking?

Draw some scenes…what do you love about the staging? the composition?…what role is lighting playing?

What are transitions like in this production?!

Scribble…doodle…make note of things that you find interesting, confusing, …when are you most interested in the story? the characters? the text?

Look at the use of designs in these two productions.