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Exam board: Eduqas Contact: Mr Griffiths
Exam board: Eduqas Contact: Mr Griffiths
Studying Drama and Theatre will give you the determination and confidence to challenge assumptions, realise your creative impulse, and develop a strong sense of curiosity. It is a course that will lay the foundations for any future career or study that requires leadership, critical analysis, and working as part of a team.
What will I study?
Component 1: Theatre Workshop (20% of qualification)
Study a text together to create a devised performance, taking on the role of either designer or performer.
How will I be assessed?
1. A portfolio recording the process and your contribution to it.
2. A recording of a group-devised performance.
Component 2: Text in Action (40% of qualification)
Create two pieces of live theatre: one using the methods of either a theatre practitioner or theatre company, and one extract from a text in a
different style to the devised piece. Students will also write a process and evaluation report.
How will I be assessed?
Externally assessed by a visiting examiner.
Component 3: Text in Performance (40% of qualification)
You will learn how production ideas and dramatic elements are communicated to an audience from the perspective of a director, a performer
and a designer. Through practical work you will explore texts in order to demonstrate how ideas for performance and production might be
realised from page to stage.
How will I be assessed?
Written exam.
Where might it lead?
• Drama schools, university courses that relate directly to drama and theatre.
• University courses that will benefit from the skills acquired, for example law, psychology, people management.
• Employment where people skills are essential, for example management, retail, nursing, industry and business environments.
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