Drama

Overview The Drama and Theatre course richly develops students’ performance skills whilst also providing them with a rigorous theoretical grounding. In addition to furthering social skills, such as the building of confidence, creativity, leadership and working collaboratively, this course encourages discovery through experimentation and risk taking, enabling students to practically explore theories behind 21st-century theatre making.

Syllabus Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Drama and Theatre (9DR0)

Course Aims The aims are to: • develop and apply an informed, analytical framework for making, performing, interpreting and understanding drama and theatre • understand the place of relevant theoretical research in informing the processes and practices involved in creating theatre and develop an understanding and appreciation of how the social, cultural and historical contexts of performance texts have influenced the development of drama and theatre • understand the practices used in 21st-century theatre making • experience a range of opportunities to create theatre, both published text-based and devised work and also to participate as an audience member in live theatre, analysing and evaluating their own work and the work of others

Course Content Component 1: • An original, devised performance using a key extract from a performance text and a practitioner as a stimuli • A reflective portfolio, documenting the creative process of the devised performance Component 2: • A monologue or duologue performance/design realisation from one key extract from one performance text • A group performance/design realisation of one key extract from a different performance tex Component 3: • A live theatre evaluation • An interpretation of one complete performance text, in light of one practitioner for a contemporary audience • A page to stage realisation of a complete performance text

Assessment Component 1: Devising (coursework) Weighting: 40% Marks: 80

Component 2: Text in Performance (coursework) Weighting: 20% Marks: 60

Component 3: Theatre Makers in Practice (Written Examination) Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes Weighting: 40% Marks: 80