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Unit 3: Producing theatre
Quick questions on Context and the playwright in VCE Theatre Studies
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What is the contexts that shape a script?Show answer
Three contexts matter. The historical context is the period and events surrounding the play. The social context is the structures of class, gender, power and relationship the play assumes. The cultural context is the beliefs, values and artistic conventions of the world it comes from.
What are context across the production roles?Show answer
Context informs every role. It tells the actor what behaviour and status meant in that world, the designer what period and class look like, the director what the play's central concerns are. When a production relocates the play, context tells every role what to carry across and what to change, so the departure is coherent rather than random.
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