Exam Board: AQA
This exciting course offers you an amazing opportunity to learn about all aspects of theatre in a practical setting. You will be given the opportunity to develop your acting skills as well as develop your understanding of design for the theatre, looking at: costume & make-up, lighting, set, sound and puppetry. You will explore different styles, genres and theatre practitioners like Brecht, Stanislavski and Frantic Assembly and apply these new skills and ideas to your own work.
What will I do?
Study a set text called Blood Brothers as an actor and designer
Create your own devised performance and put on the show for an audience. You can be an actor or designer (costume, set, lighting, sound, puppetry)
Choose a script and put on a performance of the play for an audience. You can be an actor or designer (costume, set, lighting, sound, puppetry)
Go to see performances at the theatre and write an evaluation about one
Studying drama can lead you into a career in the creative industries as a performer, director, designer, technician, producer or writer. You will also learn lots of transferable skills such as confidence with public speaking, challenging perspectives and empathising, critical and lateral thinking. These skills have supported students when they’ve gone on to debate issues of law as solicitors, delivered marketing pitches as business people or lead troops into difficult situations as an army captain.
Assessment:
40% Written Exam
40% Written and Performance Coursework (NEA)
20% Scripted Performance Exam
Where can it lead?
To the creative industries as … an actor, writer, director, musical theatre performer, content creator, costume designer, set designer, lighting designer, theatre technician, producer, dramaturg, digital editor…
Into other career paths…teacher, barrister, marketing, online advertising, human resources, charity worker, social worker, therapist…
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