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Theatre Arts for Advanced Secondary Schools

(v) Environmental sustainability: Theatre productions can have significant
environmental footprints due to factors such as set construction,
transportation and energy consumption. Ethical artists seek to minimize
their ecological impact by using sustainable materials, reducing waste
and adopting eco-friendly practices.
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(vi) Labour practices: Theatre artists should uphold fair labour practices
by ensuring that everyone involved in a production receives fair
compensation, including actors, directors, designers, technicians and
administrative staff.

(vii) Community engagement: Theatre artists, who take the issue of ethics
seriously, engage with the communities in which they work. They listen
to their concerns, involve them in projects and using their platform to
address social issues and they advocate for positive change.

(viii) Intellectual property rights: Artists must respect intellectual property
rights by obtaining proper permissions and licenses for copyrighted
materials, providing credits to sources of inspiration and avoiding
plagiarism or infringement.

(ix) Transparency and accountability: Ethical artists are transparent about
their creative processes, funding sources and decision-making. They
are accountable for the impact of their work, acknowledging people and
other works of art and being responsible for their mistakes or unintended
actions and learn from those mistakes.

Ethical issues in theatrical production and the mise-en-scene
Mise-en-scène is a French term which simply means “placing on stage,” In theatre,
the term is referred to placing actors and scenery for a theatrical production.
Basically, the term was meant for drama. With the advancement of technology, the
meaning of the term extended to include other narrative arts. In film production,
mise en scène refers to all elements that are contained in a single shot such as
actors, setting, props, costumes and lighting and the director of a play or film
is named a metteur en scène which literally means one who puts on the stage.
The following are things that directors and performers consider when making
arrangements for production, be it a film, television or theatre production.

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