Unit 4 VCE Solo and Monologue Performance Examination CD

Following on from 2011, Drama Victoria is creating a resource kit to support teachers and students of VCE drama and VCE theatre studies. The resource kit will again be published as a CD to make it easier for drama teachers to find and store resources.



This year we aim to offer:

• A range of stimuli. Where possible, this will include print, images, links to video and film, online resources
• Aspects or an aspect of each dot point (in the solo structure) and some of the more tangential or imaginative potential of the task
• Resources that stimulate different ways of conceptualising that students (and perhaps new teachers) may not have considered but which could lead to highly theatrical choices
• Research that leads to ‘theatre-making’ and what will happen ‘on the floor’.

Where possible, we will aim to provide resources exploring

theatre studies	drama
The playwright looking at aspcts of biography, major works, influences, eg. Jean Anouilh, Timberlake Wertenbaker	The main character to be played e.g. The Sheriff of Notingham
Social and historical context in which play was written, e.g. Anouilh’s Paris in 1944 during German occupation	The main resource the structure is drawn from, i.e. novel, painting, historical event, e.g. Graphic Novel Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood
Synopsis of the plot of the play	Audience e.g. PR manager – ways of representing
Theatrical style or styles of that time and their conventions	Era or time frame references – the world of the character; imaginative/real
Previous productions and interpretations – providing some info about ways of interpreting	A reference to an aspect of each dot point, e.g. the misinterpretation of instructions, the Sherriff of Nottingham being a popular good guy
Stagecraft – images of possible costume, set items and make-up choices	Tangential references and possibilities for imaginative leaps
Iconic interpretations of the character