Drama

2 Units

Course Description:

The Drama Course is designed for students to experience drama and theatre as a social, collaborative and creative art form and as an expression of culture through making, performing and critically studying drama and theatre.

This is achieved by developing in students: a knowledge and understanding of dramatic forms and techniques, an ability to make drama through participation (including collaboration with others), the ability to improvise and play build (as well as to write scripts), an understanding of the place and function of drama in societies past and present and an appreciation that drama is an artistic activity, a profession and an industry.

Year 11 Drama

This Year 11 Drama unit introduces students to core performance and production skills through a focus on improvisation, playbuilding, acting techniques theatrical traditions and styles. Students actively engage in individual and group performance tasks, building original performance pieces through playbuilding, applying dramatic elements and performance conventions.

Throughout the unit, students refine their acting through experimentation, while learning to embody a character and engage an audience. They also investigate key production elements including set design, costume design and developing dialouge to create a theme or atmosphere in performance.

Main Topics Covered

Improvisation
Play building
Acting
Elements of Production
Theatrical Traditions and Styles

Year 12 Drama

The Year 12 Drama course deepens students’ understanding of theatre practice, performance and dramatic analysis through focused study and project-based work. Students critically engage with Australian Drama and Theatre and Studies in Drama and Theatre, exploring key themes, issues and theatrical conventions that reflect identity, culture and society. They analyse set texts and performances, considering context, dramatic forms, styles and production elements.

Students complete an Individual Project in a chosen area, along with a Group Performance, requiring students to devise and perform an original piece of theatre in response to a stimulus.

Main Topics Covered

Australian Drama and Theatre
Studies in Drama and Theatre
Individual Project
Group Performances

External Assessment:

Written Examination – 1 ½ hours
Practical Examination – Group Performance & Individual Major Project

CAREERS PATHWAYS

Students who have studied Creative Arts can seek careers where collaboration, creative problem solving and innovation are integral.

For example; Producer, Arts Administrator, Actor, Events Manager, Presenter, Journalist, Musician, Human Resource / Business Manager, Lawyer, Psychologist, Politician, Historian, Teacher, Sound Technician, Multimedia artist. See the link for more career options.

For more information about this course, please see Mrs. Hibbert

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