The Semester 2 Year 8 Theatre classes are completing their first unit, exploring the genre of ‘tableau vivant’. Last week saw them take to the stage to present their ‘living pictures’. 

Students individually researched this historic theatre ‘tableau vivant’ genre of the ‘living picture’, selected paintings portraying different amounts of people, analyzed the possible costumes needed, and matched a selected painting to appropriate background music. After forming a performance group, the group selected one painting and brought the painting to life on stage. 

Performances took place last week in the sixth-floor Theatre ‘black box’ space with an appreciative audience of UISG staff, admiring the fact that our Year 8 actors could showcase their strategies to overcome distractions and be still and focused for a two-minute performance.