PRELIMINARY COURSE - YR 11

Improvisation, Playbuilding and Acting

• Basic Skills

• Specialised training in movement skills

• through 'Viewpoints' and Physical Theatre

• Voice

• Character development

• Acting and stagecraft

PRELIMINARY COURSE - YR 11

Theatrical Traditions and Performance Styles

• Explore the History of Theatre

• Styles of performance such as Absurdism,

• Realism, Melodrama etc.

Elements of Production in Performance

• Production skills (roles, design, rehearsing, staging etc) to communicate a scripted or unscripted drama to an audience.

HSC COURSE - YR12

(Starts in Term 4 Year 11)

Australian Drama and Theatre

• You will study TWO plays, by exploring the plays both in practice, acting and in theory.

Studies in Drama and Theatre

• You will explore another theatre tradition. You will study TWO plays, by exploring the plays both in practice, acting and in theory.

HSC COURSE - YR12

Individual Project

• You will choose a creative project from ONE of the following - a monologue, a video, write a play, director analysis of a play, write reviews, or design a set, costume, lighting, promotional, or write a critical research project.