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 * YAY DRAMA!**
 * The Script draft is here**


 * PERFORMANCE STATEMENT (**Tanja will bring a hard-copy to submit).

Tanja Novakovic Quy Lu Belinda Lacy Rebecca Carr Danielle Wakeling
 * Cast list**

Grade 1/2 VELS Level 2
 * Primary school grade level and VELS level**

'Where's Mum?' by Libby Gleeson
 * Name of the original story and a brief overview of the storyline of the original text**

Dad picks up his three children from kindergarten and suggests that Mum will beat them home today. However when they get home and discover that their Mum is not home, they speculate what might have happened to her. They imagine that she saw Humpty Dumpty fall, helped Jack and Jill fetch a pail of water, ate porridge with the Three Bears, climbed Jack's beanstalk, met the Big Bad Wolf, etc. The story ends when the door opens and Mum is there with all of the characters behind her.


 * The main artistic/aesthetic choices your group made (changes to original text):**

Our performance is set in the present day, and includes a Mum, two children as well as various story book characters. The theme of the performance is the power of Imagination and Storytelling.

Our group adapted the story by having two primary-school aged children walk home from school, rather than having Dad pick up the children from kindergarten. We also adapted the speculations as to where Mum may be by varying the storybook characters and conversations. The ending is also different as the happenings remain figures of the children's imagination, despite the audience knowing the truth, as opposed to the original story where the Mum arrives home with the storybook characters behind her.

The dramatic elements we used include: Narrative- as the performance involves characters and situations that they find themselves in Contrast- as there is contrast between reality and imagination Space- transitions between scenes of reality (e.g. home, school) and imagination (fictional settings such as the woods) Conflict- as the mum has lost her way and needs to work out how to get home to her children

The stagecraft elements used include: Set- flats, rostra blocks

Props

Costumes

Sound- sound effects (e.g. school bell)

Multimedia- powerpoint presentation

The theatrical conventions that we used include:

Transformation of person- as two actors play more than one part

Narrator- as the two children act as narrators

Caricature

The Arts domain in VELS level 2 suggests that students 'explore Drama elements and conventions such as costumes and props to create a character based on their observation and perception of a character in a story'. Our play illustrates one possible way the latter can be achieved and, therefore, models to students how a play can be created around the perception of the character.
 * Key pedagogical considerations**

The play is also linked to the English domain, as students approaching level 2 are expected to be exposed to a range of literacies, including spoken literacies. In this way, the play acts as a spoken literacy which students can then be prompted to respond to, as they would with a written text.


 * PROPS:**

Danielle: - hat - pencils/paper

Bec: - school bag - porridge - clothes (dress?)

Belinda: - laptop - mad hatter wig - Prince charming outfit - bonnet and apron

Tanja: - hard copy of performance statement - school bag - mad hatter top hat - Cap (for kid) - bucket - tea cup - Coloured pencils, paper: Pre-drawn pictures of: Jack & Jill, Goldilocks, Mad Hatter, Prince Charming.

Quy: - shoe - Mum outfit