In Year 12, students study ‘Theatre Practice’ where they practically explore texts in the style of key practitioners focus on actor training. They also complete a ‘Devised Project’ where they create an original and innovative piece of theatre that is developed from a scripted stimulus. The next challenge for our A Level students is ‘Exploring and Performing Texts’. In this unit of study, pupils perform a complete and substantial play. They develop characterisation and really become skilful in developing scripts from page to stage.

In the ‘Analysing Performance‘ component, students choose two texts and explore the way in which an actor or designer could convey elements, issues or themes of the texts on stage. The A Level then concludes with a ‘Deconstructing Texts for Performance’ unit where theatre students study a play with the view of a director and decide how they would stage their own performance with their own contemporary concept and vision