DQ Industry Partners & Queensland Companies
La Boite Theatre Company
Hi Teachers! A big hello from La Boite.
To assist with the transition to online learning, we’ve put together some resource packs for you and your students.
These resources are specifically designed for online/at home learning and can be:
- downloaded directly by students to use immediately; or
- downloaded by teachers to use as lesson planning content.
If you have students who do not have consistent access to the internet, many of these tasks are achievable offline.
To make things easier, everything is written in ‘student directed’ language, so you don’t need to rewrite the instructions. In saying that, you are welcome to cut, edit and paste the content.
The resource packs have been divided into the Senior Syllabus Units (QCAA 2019 v1.1), to streamline your experience. However, many tasks can be easily transferred into Junior (ACARA) contexts.
At this stage, we’ve focused on producing exercises that you can deliver to your students quickly and efficiently. Over the next few weeks we will be developing additional resources including onlinein-school workshops and the continuation of our RIOT program.
If you have any questions or need assistance, please get in touch.
Queensland Theatre
QT has re-shaped The Scene Project to make it ready for online teaching, transforming the program into an 8-week unit of work, complete with assessment tasks. The program includes a video introduction from the author of the commissioned play, Wisdom by David Burton (St Marys In Exile), a recorded rehearsed read of the work from the Young Artists Alumni (Daphne Chen, Harper McIlroy, Reagan Mannix and Dimitri Politis) directed by Travis Dowling and further research and inquiry tasks to get your students delving into the text.
If that sounds good then get keen, because the program also includes video scriptwriting workshops from Merlynn Tong (Antigone) and Steve Pirie (QPDA Finalist) with a focus on using gaps and silences in texts!
To find out more about the digital program contact the QT Education Coordinator Emma Funnell for more information.
Playlab Theatre
Hey, have you heard? We have just introduced a new platform to support educators and students with remote learning!
Introducing Playlab Theatre’s new Remote Learning Resources, designed to provide educators and their students remote access to a select range of publications from our catalogue normally available only in hardcopy.
Available for a limited time in response to the changed circumstances around educating students under the current laws implemented to contain COVID-19, this new platform allows multiple users to access material via our website, providing resources for the continued learning for students, and to also support playwrights through royalties during these unprecedented times. Access for multiple users is $400/per publication for a 3-month period.
Click here to request access to our ‘Remote Learning Resources’. To view our full 2020 Curriculum suggestions, click here.
shake & stir
Available on this unique, online portal, are high-quality, multi-camera recordings of our performances, along with all the accompanying teachers’ resources. Also, a schedule of times when our performers, creatives and directors will be going ‘live’ to host interactive Q&As with students. These recordings will absolutely capture the essence of ‘live’ theatre and each has been filmed continually, with no stops or edits (apart from switching to different camera angles). It’s a truly live theatre experience with shake & stir, captured in real time with the flexibility to stream when you need it. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch via email if you have any further questions or if you would like to organise access to SHAKE & STIR VIRTUAL.
Backbone Theatre & Lucas Stibbard
Backbone are offering everything they usually offer in workshops but as online content. They can cover pretty much any area of the syllabus that you are keen on and will build a workshop resource for you, tailored to your particular take on the tasks and focus within the teaching.
Lucas is finishing off one on Theatre of Comment/Brecht lensed with the devices from Boy Girl Wall that includes plans and tasks made in concert with the teacher as well as videos and exemplars of exercises. Lucas can make what people want and put it up for them to use at workshop rates.
Lucas can offer things on: Ancient Greek, Shakespeare, Mask, Lacoq, Laban, Character – Physicality and Analysis, Storytelling, Monodrama, Dramaturgy, Brecht, Post-Dramatic Theatre, Realism, Acting Skills, Text Analysis, Directing, Designing, Devising, Dramaturgy, Puppetry, Absurdism, Audition Technique, Oz Goth, Magic Realism, Clowning, Interactive and Immersive work, Poetry, Stanislavski, Verbatim, Visual Theatre.
Lucas is set up to make and deliver online workshops, just get in touch.
Dr Susan Davis – DQ Life Member
Teaching and creating drama using online platforms and tools. Something to consider is that work, ‘offers’, ‘responses’ and ‘interactions’ don’t all have to take place online, at the same time using zoom or video conferencing software. You can set up your ‘pre-text’, stimulus or challenge and have students then respond, make offers, and extend through many different means, whether it is plain text emails, or using a collective blog, Microsoft Teams or whatever – you can create one that is for ‘inside the drama’ and out ‘out of role and/or the drama’. You can respond and work with published plays, texts and picture books, or create your own new drama.
Planning for a ‘cyberdrama’ (which is really about a fictional world shared using online platforms) might be of interest. There were a range of publications from my research and chapter in the “Dramatexts” textbook as well that might be of interest.
The Coalface
Scattered Lives is a contemporary Australian work that explores who and what is ‘Australian’. Episodic in form, the play charts situations that have brought people to Australia from the late 1950s to the present day. It juxtaposes 4th-wall naturalism with elements of Brecht and Epic Theatre, including direct address and provides a dynamic resource to explore the actor-audience relationship. With over 20 nominated roles, including Narrators who step in and out of the dramatic action, the play includes monologues, duologues, shared-stories and multi-character scenes. Use Scattered Lives as a resource for Verbatim, Epic, Brechtian and Political Theatre. Also to unpack the Audience Performer relationship and Dramatic Conventions. Resources available: published play, high quality DVD and production resource notes. Click here for further details.
Martha’s War on War is a beautifully orchestrated Australian contemporary play that fuses a range of dramatic conventions to tell the most intimate and poignant story. The playwright uses personal historical documentation as stimuli and weaves verbatim passages with fictionalised dramatic action. Resources available: On-line high-quality video, published play, high quality DVD and production resource notes. Click here for further details.
Australian Plays
Australian Plays has a great range of plays. They also offer a Library Pass to the plays so that students are able to access these.
Dead Puppet Society
Hell-bent on bringing their inimitable brand of entertainment to the world, DPS creates deeply imaginative theatre where the old school meets the technological and the mythic meets the modern. Click here to visit their web site to check out their online classroom & teacher resources.