Drama

In Year 10 Drama, students explore a range of stimuli including poetry, music, literature and current social issues through script, movement and improvisation to create dramatic and dynamic performance pieces. These skills are then used to create group-devised performances exploring selected texts and themes.

Students explore acting, stagecraft and theatre history, as well as examining a selection of theatre styles in their performance tasks. Students learn to critically analyse and evaluate their own performances and those of theatre artists using drama terminology. Students attend a live theatre performance and use theatre reviews to assist them in the interpretation of plays.

Content/Skills

Students participate in a range of activities that develop their expressive skills and improvisation techniques. These include voice, physical theatre, gesture and characterisation. In Drama we tell stories, explore ideas, make sense of the world and communicate meaning through the practice of performance-making. The study of drama enables students’ individual and collective identities to be explored, expressed and validated. Students develop an ability to empathise through understanding and accepting diversity. Students draw from, and respond to, contexts and stories that reflect different cultures, genders, sexualities and abilities.

Students are connected to multiple traditions of drama practice across a range of social, historical and cultural contexts. Through the processes of devising and performing, students investigate self and others by exploring and responding to the contexts, the narratives and the stories that shape their worlds. Research is undertaken to explore a selection of periods of theatre history and theatrical practitioners whose extensive bodies of work have influenced the way we view theatre, film and television today.