Drama & Theatre

Exam board: Eduqas
Contact: Mr Griffiths

Studying Drama and Theatre will give you the determination and confidence to challenge assumptions, realise your creative impulse, and develop a strong sense of curiosity. It is a course that will lay the foundations for any future career or study that requires leadership, critical analysis, and working as part of a team.

What will I study?

Component 1: Theatre Workshop (20% of qualification)
Study a text together to create a devised performance, taking on the role of either designer or performer.

How will I be assessed?

1. A portfolio recording the process and your contribution to it.
2. A recording of a group-devised performance.

Component 2: Text in Action (40% of qualification)

Create two pieces of live theatre: one using the methods of either a theatre practitioner or theatre company, and one extract from a text in a different style to the devised piece. Students will also write a process and evaluation report.

How will I be assessed?

Externally assessed by a visiting examiner.

Component 3: Text in Performance (40% of qualification)

You will learn how production ideas and dramatic elements are communicated to an audience from the perspective of a director, a performer and a designer. Through practical work you will explore texts in order to demonstrate how ideas for performance and production might be realised from page to stage.

How will I be assessed?

Written exam.

Where might it lead?

• Drama schools, university courses that relate directly to drama and theatre.
• University courses that will benefit from the skills acquired, for example law, psychology, people management.
• Employment where people skills are essential, for example management, retail, nursing, industry and business environments.