From the VCE Drama study design:

VCE Drama focuses on the creation and performance of characters and stories that communicate ideas, meaning and messages using contemporary drama-making practices. Students engage with creative processes, explore and respond to stimulus material, and apply play-making techniques to develop and present devised work. Students learn about, and draw on, a range of performance styles and conventions through the investigation of work by a diverse range of drama practices and practitioners, including Australian drama practitioners.

Students explore characteristics of selected performance styles and apply and manipulate conventions, dramatic elements, and production areas, including sustainable ways to source and apply production areas. They use performance skills and expressive skills to explore and develop character(s). Within the scope of this study, students will create performances that include transformation of character, time and place, and application of symbol. The created works can occur in any space and be performed for any selected audience. The work created may pass comment on or respond to aspects of real-world issues including political, social and cultural. Students reflect on, analyse and evaluate the development and performance of their own work, and the work and performances of other drama practitioners.