Audience/Critiquing
http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/students/tb/08_00_critisim.htm

As artists and audience members, it is very important for the students to learn to be astute critics. They need help. Their first response is to talk about what they like or don't like in a production or performance. To be a critic, they must move beyond the obvious and learn to really see and hear the performance/production. Making their own dramas will help them learn all that goes into creating a production. They can develop a vocabulary to describe all the elements and activities. But they must learn to analyze and interpret what they see and hear. Then they will have earned the right to evaluate the piece.

At the end of all the lessons, we have suggested the students critique their work to construct meaning for themselves, to assess their work, and to develop plans for making it even better in the future.

In the Audience/Critiquing section there is an introduction to the art of criticism. Then we have created questions to guide discussions about most aspects of preparing, presenting and viewing a drama. The students can certainly be given the printed questions, or better yet, you can lead discussions using the questions. I deally, you will help the students to create their own questions (criteria) for interrogating (questioning) a piece of art, and then evaluating it.

The material covered:

1. Creating the Play
   Includes scenarios, dialogue, screenplays and storyboards
2. Designing the Play
3. Performing the Play
   Includes improvisation, playreading, choral reading, and storytelling
4. Seeing the Play
   Includes live and media performances