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Theatre is one of our earliest forms of entertainment and since its inception has been shaped by different cultures, social and political change and a diverse mix of theatre practitioners hell-bent on re-inventing the art form.
Course Overview
In the Drama A-Level course students will themselves get to experience some of these developments that have shaped theatre and make it such a richly diverse art form.
The course encourages students to be magpies, borrowing from a range of practitioners and cultural styles studied in the course and live theatre that they have seen. This understanding then informs their own live performances and hypothetical performances of their own. They themselves become reflective theatre practitioners, looking at theatre from all angles: actor, designer, writer, technician, choreographer.
We hope to teach the course in the 3 drama studios (2 large studios for practical work and a theory room), which we anticipate to be fully equipped with professional lighting and sound equipment that the students are encouraged to incorporate into the creation of live theatre.
It is not a pre-requisite that those on the course have studied IGCSE Drama, but it is certainly a help, as this course will build on the practical skills and further their knowledge of the theory behind different performing styles and genres.
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