ZIMSEC · Form 6 · Upper 6
Theatre Arts
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- Acting techniques and practitioners Realistic, truthful acting: given circumstances, objectives and super-objective, the magic "if", emotion memory, units and objectives, subtext, circles of attention, and later the method of physical actions.
- Directing, staging and design Proscenium arch (end-on, picture frame), thrust (audience on three sides), arena/in-the-round, traverse (audience on two sides), promenade and site-specific performance, open-air community spaces.
- Theatre for development and community theatre Theatre used as a tool for education, participation and social change in communities – on health (HIV and AIDS, cholera), gender-based violence, child rights, environment, governance and peace-building.
- Playwriting, devising and arts management Developing an idea, characters with clear objectives and conflict, structure (scenes and acts), dialogue that reveals character and advances action, stage directions, and redrafting. Script layout: character names, dialogue and stage directions in italics or brackets.