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TRANSITION TO A LEVEL and BTEC
TRANSITION TO A LEVEL and BTEC
DRAMA & THEATRE
DRAMA & THEATRE
Designed by Quin Golding for AQA texts Antigone &
Metamorphosis
This is not a reading list. Nor it is not a list of the very best in theatre. Like any art form, it is up to taste. And great taste comes from a wide and varied diet.To ready yourself for A level study follow your nose through the assortment of resources available here in a spirit of independent enquiry. Find what is new as well as digging deeper into ideas you recognise.
A Level Theatre Studies
A Level Theatre Studies
Brecht in Practice (online resource by Prof David Barnett, University of York)
Reflecting on your learning journey
Reflecting on your learning journey
Should I make notes?
Yes. But part of Drama is creating and documenting your process, so we would like you to blog instead. This could be a video, audio, written or mixed media. For instance, could watch a play and then record your reactions, or create an image that reflects the ideas you’ve read.
This was created using Google Sites which is included in your Google account. Alternatively use a blog.
Minimum expectations = One blog post each week.
Historical Drama
Historical Drama
Listen
Listen
Mix up screen time with the pleasure of radio and podcasts. From informative discussion to creative audio production. Dig into something new or get to know a subject better.
Widening your horizons
Widening your horizons
History of the written word - IOT
Where are all the women in historical drama? An essential question to ask. Aphra Benn (IOT) is the most famous, with many more pushed into the periphery.
NATIONAL THEATRE COLLECTION
Pre-20th Century Drama
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Antigone by Sophocles (set text)
Classical Greek Tragedy (400BC)
Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare (set text)
Elizabethan comedy
Hedda Gabler by Ibsen (set text)
19th Century Naturalistic Tragedy
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
Elizabethan history play with a modern promenade staging at the Bridge Theatre.
Watch contextual insights
Watch contextual insights
Tragedy
Prof Edith Hall and Tom Mackenzie provide short intros to key elements in Greek plays.
Audience
Prof Edith Hall and Oliver Taplin are the go-to people for this area of study. Follow the link below for short videos introducing topics related to the people and the times in Athens 400BC.
Style
5min introductions to different stylistic elements as well as further insight into Antigone particularly.
Modern Drama
Modern Drama
Listen
Listen
Watch productions
Watch productions
This House by James Graham - National Theatre Live Full Performance.mp4Watch the celebrated political drama This House by James Graham (who also wrote Quiz)
Listen to writer James Graham talk about his politics and this production on The Political Party
Your Old Vic- A Monster Calls.mp4A Monster Calls
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness’s piercing novel A Monster Calls is brought to The Old Vic stage in a powerful new adaptation by visionary director Sally Cookson.
Use these details to access the films:
Use these details to access the films:
Small Island by Helen Edmundsen (2020)
Small Island follows three intricately connected stories. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as the play traces the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.
Wise Children adapted from the Angela Carter novel by Emma Rice
Emma Rice brings her unique, exuberantly impish vision to Angela Carter’s great last novel, Wise Children, launching her new theatre company of the same name and its London residency at The Old Vic.
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (1947)
As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.
Watch contextual insights
Watch contextual insights
Steven Berkoff - The Actor
5min clip introducing his style
Berkoff on Metamorphosis
5min interview
Who was Kafka?
Kafka’s enduring influence
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher
Nietzsche
Philosopher
Camus
Philosopher
Kafka’s Life
Prague, Jewish roots, family and context of 1910s.
Now Create
Now Create
Now over to you to create SOMETHING. Perhaps perform a script, write your
own, record a radio play, create a film on a phone. Below you will see ideas to
get the ball rolling; illustrating the resources of artists.
Irish writers responding to the lockdown. What would you’re response be?
Major theatres in the US have came together to create a series of short plays from playwrights commissioned specifically for this moment of unprecedented isolation to inspire joy and connection for all. All plays are original, family-friendly, and ready to be downloaded and enjoyed by everyone.
Put the kettle on and settle down for a listen to the phenomenal director of ‘Wise Children’ as she interviews other theatre makers.
From Scottish theatre company Visible Fictions comes the 1 minute challenge. All created on a phone.
Films include and exciting mix of art forms including stop frame animation, original music, sketches, monologues and more!
Choose someone you’ve never heard of. Listen to what makes them tick as a writer and share your thoughts.
An excellent guide to writing for the stage. With a range of exercises and information on new writing theatre companies.
Frantic Digital, a brand new resource designed to take you behind the scenes of the Frantic Method; sharing insights into the creative and rehearsal process (Frantic Flashbacks), practical creative tasks (Frantic Create) and fun, production related warm ups that can all be safely tried at home.
A practical introduction to physical theatre. This workshop, designed for all levels of experience, will develop your confidence as a physical performer and act as an ignition point for devising dynamic new work.
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