12 Drama

SUBJECT OVERVIEW

Students acquire the skills and understanding to generate creative and imaginative solutions to the challenge of staging theatrical works. Drama values the exploration of all forms of learning, integrating the creative with the physical and the intellectual. Students analyse texts and other materials, performances, and their own learning. As students experience diverse perspectives and challenge their own imaginations, they have the opportunity to develop confidence in their own ideas. Drama involves working collaboratively to manipulate words and images to create meaning that is shared with an audience. The exploration of drama through participating, viewing, and critiquing is an important part of the process of achieving an artistic, socially and culturally relevant production. Students are expected to work effectively with others and show considerable initiative in each aspect of the course.

Topics may include

Group production

• Students will participate in a group production of a chosen text in either an offstage or onstage role. Each student will creatively interpret and experiment with their role, polishing in rehearsals and production meetings culminating in a presentation to a live audience. In addition, students will produce a 15-minute presentation that analyses the process, learning and evaluation.

Creative presentation

• Students will be taught the style of a theatre innovator. In small groups, produce a performance demonstrating their knowledge and understanding. In this presentation students will be assessed in offstage roles as either, director, costume, multimedia, set, lighting or sound design. They will also produce a portfolio of learning that demonstrates their creative intentions and process.

Evaluation and creativity

• Students will undertake and explore the dramatic process to respond.
• These tasks will be presented together as either written or multimodal.