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Drama

EXAM BOARD: WJEC

HEAD OF DRAMA: Mr Craige

STAFF: Mrs Ross, Miss Molyneux, Miss Batey

Drama is an exciting, creative and challenging course. Students can develop an insight into, and an understanding of, a wide range of activities.

 

This course is an enjoyable and practical approach to drama that has an emphasis upon learning through doing. It allows students to improve their performance skills by creating their own work and by preparing existing texts for performance.

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Course benefits:

In addition to helping students acquire subject knowledge, this course also:

  • Encourages students to explore and actively engage in a wide range of creative and stimulating activities, so they can develop as effective and independent learners and as critical and reflective thinkers with enquiring minds.

  • Enables students to develop and demonstrate competence in a range of practical and creative areas.

  • Helps students to work imaginatively and creatively in collaborative contexts, generating, developing and communicating ideas.

Requirements:

  • Good attitude and passion for drama.

  • Ability to work collaboratively with lots of other people.

  • A focused and disciplined approach to study.

  • Good attendance is a crucial aspect for students in Drama. Due to the nature of this subject and group work components students will not be able to complete the set tasks successfully without good attendance. Students are also required to attend after school rehearsals when devising and creating work.

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ASSESSMENT:

UNIT 1: DEVISING THEATRE

Non-exam assessment. Internally assessed, externally moderated. 60 marks total.

 

Learners will be assessed on their acting and their individual contribution to the devising of an original piece of work. They will participate in the creation, development and performance of a piece of devised theatre using either the techniques of an influential theatre practitioner or a genre, in response to a stimulus set by WJEC.

 

Learners must produce:

  • A piece of devised theatre.

  • A written portfolio of supporting evidence.

  • A written evaluation of the final performance/design.

40%

UNIT 2: PERFORMING FROM A TEXT

Non-exam assessment. Externally assessed by a visiting examiner. 60 marks total.

 

Learners will:

  • Be assessed on either acting or design.

  • Study two extracts from the same performance text chosen by the school.

  • Participate in one performance using sections of text from both extracts.

20%

ASSESSMENT: WRITTEN EXAM

“Interpreting Theatre” - 1 hour 30 minutes. 60 marks total.

 

Section A:

  • Set Text: A series of questions on one set text.

 

Section B:

  • Live theatre review.

  • One question from a choice of two, requiring analysis and evaluation of a given aspect of a live theatre production seen during the course.

40%

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