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Theatre Arts for Advanced Secondary Schools

Activity 4.5

Use internet source to search and watch a stage play from any East African
country. Then, prepare a short performance evaluation form using the
FOR ONLINE READING ONLY
following questions to evaluate the performance:
(i) What the performance is about?
(ii) Were the performers believable?
(iii) How did they seem to do this, if they were believable?
(iv) If they weren’t believable, what do you think might have happened
and contributed to the poor performance?
(v) Identify the performer you considered most successful from the play?
(vi) Explain in your opinion what might have contributed to their success.
Fill in the form you have prepared.

Activity 4.6

Attend any stage performance and choose one scene in a play, then;
(a) Determine the emotions of characters in the scene you have chosen
and relate them to your past experience; and
(b) Write down your emotional memory related to the emotion of the
character in the scene.

Performing for radio

Performing for radio refers to the process of preparing and delivering a
performance that will be broadcasted on a live or recorded radio program. Radio
as a medium of communication has a long history of using drama techniques to
make listeners create in their minds a picture or visual images from what they
heard in the drama. Radio drama is called a ‘theatre of the mind’ because the
audience internalises the sounds they hear by creating imaginative images in their
minds as they listen to the radio drama. Radio drama depends on dialogue, music
and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story. Actors
in the radio drama convey the characters’ emotions and personalities through
their voices. This requires an actor to have high level of vocal expression and
imagination to bring characters and scenes to life for the audience. There are
two types of radio drama which are live and recorded radio drama. Performing
approach for each radio drama differs from the other.

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