Drama and Theatre Studies
A-level Drama & Theatre will give you the opportunity to explore a range of texts and topics through performance and analysis. You will learn a wide variety of skills through practical work and analytical reflection. This will include; cooperation and collaboration, independent decision making, effective communication, awareness of a potential audience reaction, reviewing and refining work, detailed analysis of processes and self reflection to inform future decisions. These will provide you with a varied skill set, whatever your chosen career.
POSSIBLE CAREER PATHS:
- Acting
- Theatre Management
- Television
- Film
- Teaching
- Journalism
- Broadcast Media
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Course Outline—AQA 7262
Component 1: Devising Drama (40%): • Devise an original performance piece as a performer or a designer. • Create and build a portfolio on the devising process • Use one key extract from a performance text and a theatre practitioner as stimuli.
Component 2: Text in Performance (20%): • One group performance/design of one key extract of a play • One monologue/duologue performance/design of one key extract from a different play
Component 3: Theatre Makers in Practice—Written Exam (40%) • Live theatre evaluation • Practical exploration and study of a complete performance text – focusing on how this can be realised for performance. • Practical exploration and interpretation of another complete performance text, in light of a chosen theatre practitioner – focusing on how this text could be reimagined for a contemporary audience
Topics covered in this course include:
- Theatre history
- Work of significant practitioners including Stanislavski, Berkoff and Berkoff.
- Devising theatre
- Texts in performance
- Live theatre evaluation
- Study of set texts
- Performance
- Design—lights, set and costume