Welcome to the A Level Drama & Theatre revision microsite! Click on the buttons below to access materials to support your revision and study.
If you have any questions, please contact: lwalker@rodingvalley.net or rwilson@rodingvalley.net or ajoseph@rodingvalley.net
A Level Drama & Theatre revision reading list and online resources
COMP3 - Section A - Saved, by Edward Bond
Saved, Edward bond: correct exam edition
Saved PLC
Knowledge organiser from the exam board and a more detailed booklet too.
Radio shows about Bond and Saved: Night Waves (an interview with Bond about his revival of Saved), The last Word (starts 12 minutes in), Arts & Ideas and Free Thinking
COMP3 - Section B - Cat of a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams
The knowledge organiser from the exam board
A playlist of video resources
An effective summary of Tennessee Williams' life on the Wikipedia page.
Some accounts of the first production of cat on a Hot Tin Roof from The New York Times, Playbill (including links to subsequent revivals, and this site with has some first hand accounts from Kazan and Williams, including references to the changes to ACT III.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams: correct exam edition
COMP3 - Section C - Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (not in the mini PPE)
Curious Incident knowledge organiser
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams: correct exam edition
General revision
A series of slides from Eduqas, which literally walks you through the exam. Click play and it will talk you through it. Annoyingly, it has sections A and B the wrong way round, but the general advice will still stand.
More guidance about the written exam, specifically to do with design
Additional pages from the script folders to help with your note taking
The Section A and B Revision Menu
The NT Collection from Drama Online, for watching more live theatre to support you with sections B and C.
Username: 7Qh-0Gr-
Password: 6Vl'2Lf.
Online resources:
BBC Bitesize revision Eduqas specific
Get started task: Section B
We have already started a great get-started-task! Here are the tell-me-5 documents we began in lockdown:
Tell me 5 - Dr Faustus LTE - extract 1
Tell me 5 - Dr Faustus LTE - extract 2
Objective - improve your set of examples and evaluation of the extracts.
Task - make your own copies of these documents. Watch Dr Faustus again, including Mr Wilson’s video commentary version [available HERE as soon as he has made it!]
Priority: complete the sections about voice
After that: Create new tell-me-5s for other extracts