Drama
The Drama course aims to provide students with experiences in which the intellect, the emotions, the imagination and the body are involved and developed through expression, performance, observation and reflection.
Drama provides students with a powerful means of exploring the way people react and respond to different issues and ideas. It teaches students skills in sharing ideas and communicating. Students develop self confidence and social awareness through play building and performance. Students develop their literacy and visual literacy skills by reading and writing scripts, analysing performance spaces, theatrical conventions and production.
Content
- The course has a practical component of 70% and a theory component of 30%.
- The emphasis on this course is on creative development of skills in improvisation and play building.
- Performance experience is gained by participating in theatresports competitions, the Warringah Eisteddfods and the McDonald’s Performing Arts Challenge. Students are also involved in peer education, through the organization of the junior students’ Talent Quest.
- Through the study of improvisation, students explore links to theatrical traditions such as Commedia del’arte.
- Students are also introduced to journal-writing, through the study of plays, to reflect on their own and others dramatic processes.
Assessment
- Improvisation performance
- Group performance
- Journal
- Scripts
- Research assignments
- Written examinations
Excursions
- Theatre workshops
- Current performances relevant to topics being explored.
Text
Making Drama Burton, Bruce. Longman