Dramatic Forms and Performance · Dramatic Texts

Breaking the Fourth Wall

Investigating metatheatre and techniques that acknowledge the artifice of the performance.

Key Questions

  1. 1How does direct address to the audience change the power dynamic in the theatre?
  2. 2What is the purpose of reminding the audience that they are watching a play?
  3. 3How do metatheatrical elements comment on the nature of reality itself?

ACARA Content Descriptions

AC9E10LT03AC9E10LT04
Year: Year 12
Subject: English
Unit: Dramatic Forms and Performance
Period: Dramatic Texts

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