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Twelfth Night: Theatre promotions

Student Outcome Statement: Arts Skills and Processes - Level 4 – Selects from a range of specific skills, techniques, processes and appropriate technologies in presenting arts works for identified audiences or purposes.

Teaching/Learning Purposes/Objectives: To enable the student to:

Major Purpose: To illustrate the key (and vital) aspects of Shakespearean texts

Key Question: How can we identify and communicate to a chosen audience?

Inspiration: South Lakes Primary School, School Experience.

The Hook: Imagine you’re the promotional manager for a Shakespearean production

- What’s happening? You need to advertise your up and coming production

- Who’s it happening to? Yourself as the promotion’s artist and writer

- Where is it happening? In His Majesty’s Theatre

- When is it happening? In one month

- What’s at stake? You must complete two approaches (out of three) to advertise this production. If you choose the wrong approach, no audience means no employment.

- Identify key ideas from Twelfth Night – In a whole class discussion, identify the key aspects of characters, plot and issues raised (this assumes previous interaction).

- Present ‘the Hook’ – In a whole group activity, work through an example of promoting a production. Using an example of a poster, point out the key aspects required.

- Begin project – Firstly, individual students will be asked to choose either a poster or a bookmark to advertise the upcoming production. Each choice would have its own associated pro’s and con’s…