IGCSE DRAMA - 0411 Handbook

Cambridge IGCSE Drama provides opportunities for learners to develop practical skills in performance, both as an individual and within a group. Learners will understand the artistic choices made by actors, directors and designers in presenting performances for an audience. They will also learn about theatrical styles and genres. Learners will explore how to develop their own ideas in creating original drama.

Our approach in Cambridge IGCSE Drama encourages learners to be:

• • • Confident - Developing practical skills to deliver dramatic performance for an audience

• • • Responsible - Developing shared responsibility working with others and understanding the power of drama to engage, influence and persuade

• • • Reflective - Engaging with performance processes, and using them to inform future practice

• • •  Innovative - Creating original dramatic work and formulating imaginative responses to existing repertoire

• • • Engaged - developing their enjoyment of drama to support their practical, intellectual and artistic growth.

     Aims:

   The aims describe the purposes of a course based on this syllabus.

   The aims are to enable students to develop:

• • • an interest in and enjoyment of drama and theatre

• • • an understanding of the dramatic process of moving from script to performance

• • • skills in devising original drama

• • • practical performance skills as individuals and within a group

• • • an understanding of, and engagement with, the role of actor, director and designer in creating a piece of drama

• • • an understanding of how performers communicate with an audience.

Cambridge IGCSE Drama aims to encourage progression to AS Level or A Level study in drama.

 Learners develop an understanding and enjoyment of drama through practical and theoretical study.

Candidates will study:

• the elements of practical drama

• how to work with extracts from published plays as an actor, director and designer

• how to devise, develop and structure their own original dramatic material from stimuli such as short titles, poems, pictures, songs, historical events and stories

• how to evaluate their contribution to the devising process and the success of the final piece

• how to use staging and design as part of a dramatic performance

• individual and group performance skills and how they are applied to create character and communicate meaning to an audience.

Component 2 - Coursework (Performance)

Group Performance - Devised and Text