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Macbeth Unleashed: Creative Techniques for Drama Educators

HOTA, Home of the Arts Engages Sport for Jove

Wed 23 Jul 2025
Macbeth Unleashed: Creative Techniques for Drama Educators

Macbeth Unleashed: Creative Techniques for Drama Educators

Join Rob Jago from Sport for Jove, for a dynamic workshop on Shakespeare’s "Macbeth," exploring the tragic tale of ambition and power. This contemporary production offers fresh insights into Macbeth's world, focusing on themes like double lives and modern violence. Jago’s interpretation highlights the play’s profound language and its relevance to today’s issues. Educators will learn practical strategies to teach "Macbeth," enhancing their understanding of its dramatic elements and making the text engaging for students. Ideal for Drama and English educators, this workshop will help you bring Shakespeare’s work to life and connect it with your students’ experiences.

Recommended for school educators, pre-service teachers, tertiary students, and artists.

Dates
Wed 23 Jul 2025
Warnings
Adult themes and violence
Duration
2 hrs
Tickets
All Tickets $30
Times
Wed 23 July - 4:00pm

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#Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

Domains of teachingStandards
Professional Knowledge1. Know the content and how to teach it
Professional Practice3. Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning
Professional Engagement6. Engage in professional learning
7. Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community

Links to curriculum:

Drama

Year 10 ACARA 9.0 Descriptors and Elaborations:

Exploring and Responding

Students analyse performances to understand how symbols and movement create meaning. They investigate the collaborative creation and development of drama texts, focusing on how elements and conventions shape meaning and achieve intentions. They explore historical texts and styles from diverse cultural traditions, examining how contemporary performance conventions, such as non-realist or innovative forms, influence meaning. This exploration serves as a foundation for their own creative work.

Years 11 –12: General Senior Syllabus 2025 v1.1

Unit 4: Transform

In Unit 4, students explore inherited theatrical traditions, such as Greek Theatre, Elizabethan Theatre, and Neoclassicism, alongside emerging dramatic practices. They develop their artistic statements by adapting and transforming classic texts to reflect contemporary styles and address modern audiences. The unit focuses on reshaping dramatic languages and texts, integrating contemporary performance philosophies to challenge and redefine meaning in dramatic works.

English

Years 10 ACARA 9.0 Descriptors and Elaborations:

Examine Literature

Analyse how text structures, language features, literary devices, and visual elements, along with the context of their experience, influence audience response and shape interpretations. Compare and evaluate the use of "voice" across different forms to evoke emotional responses and aesthetic qualities.

Years 11 –12: General Senior Syllabus 2025 v1.1

Unit 4: Close Study of Literary Texts

Students explore the world and human experience by engaging with literary texts from diverse times and places. They explore how these texts build a shared understanding of the human experience and through this become significant to a culture. This unit includes the close study of literary texts to allow students to extend their experience of the world.

General Capabilities: 

  • Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Ethical Understanding
  • Literacy
  • Personal and Social capability

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