A Level - Drama & Theatre Studies

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Course Summary

Subject: Drama & Theatre Studies

Course Title: A Level - Drama & Theatre Studies

Course Types: Sixth Form

Course Level: A-Level

Course Description

This course aims to provide students with skills using team work, to improve their confidence in their own individual acting ,directing or design skills, to develop the ability to explain ideas and to apply them in a practical context.

The A Level course has a 30% practical element, comprising of performance marks based on the pieces performed during the course and on the Practical Assessment days. Specifically the performances are of a Practitioner applied to an extract from texts in performance AND to the creation and delivery of a devised piece in performance too.

The other 70% is based on written coursework, based on performance and on a written exam, the 2 set texts studied and reviews of plays seen live. The texts are allowed in the exam room so the exam is not a test of memory of content studied, instead the examiners are looking for the expression of ideas on the performance of texts and the analysis of production elements used to bring texts from pager to stage. As such, the study of texts is from the perspective of an actor, director, designer or technician so the whole programme of study is from this practical standpoint. It is a very enjoyable, varied, imaginative and creative course.

Exam

Component 1 ‐ Drama and Theatre

3 hour written Exam paper on 2 set texts and a review of a play seen live (40%).

Component 2: Creating Original Drama (Practical)

Performance of a devised piece of Drama based on the work of a Practitioner, supported by a Working Notebook. This is coursework & marked by teachers & moderated by AQA (30%).

Component 3: Making Theatre (Practical)