Drama and Theatre Studies

Term One: Autumn Term

Perform: Blood Brothers

Developing performance skills and learning about stage types

Perform: Romeo and Juliet

Developing physical and vocal skills to a script and learning stage combat for Act 3 scene 1

Exploration of a contemporary script, learning how to annotate and apply performance skills and staging techniques.

Term Two: Christmas Term

Perform-Anita and Me

Developing performance skills further in a duologue

Perform: A Monster Calls

Developing Physical and vocal skills and applying to a script

Exploration of Ensemble and Physical Theatre when applied to a classical script

Term Three: Winter Term

Create-Gothic

Learning how to create a piece of theatre from a stimulus in a Gothic style

Create: Murder Mystery

Devise a performance using a stimulus and development/structuring techniques

Acting for camera: learning how to adapt performance and staging when seen through the lens rather than a live audience. TV script used.

Term Four: Easter Term

Create: Design

Learning the fundamentals of Set, Costume, Lighting and sound design through the lens of the Gothic pieces

Create: Design

Develop production skills for the Murder Mystery in previous term

Theatre Practioners: Learning how prominent theatre makers present their devices and style. Students will apply these techniques to a starting point and workshop their ideas.

Term Five: Spring Term

Create - Greek Theatre

Learning about the origins of Western theatre in Ancient Greece and creating a piece from a Greek Mythology

Create: World Theatre

Learning about theatre from other cultures and how they compare/contrast to Western theatre Kabuki and African genres will be explored

Stimuli exploration and developing understanding of devising and choreography and the devices and processes involved in the development of original performance pieces

Term Six: Summer Term

Respond - Peter Pan

Developing the skills of analysis and evaluation by using prior knowledge of drama skills and conventions gained throughout the year

Respond:Treasure Island; National Theatre

Developing skills of analysis and evaluation while referring back to prior knowledge learnt throughout the year

Collaborative project: All students create their own work to perform in The Sinden using all skills they have learnt throughout the course

Autumn Term

Component 1: The Crucible - Set Text

World of the Play and taking a play from page to stage through practical exploration

Students will also learn how to describe, analyse and evaluate

Component 2: Devising - exploration of genre and techniques

Component 1: Live Theatre Review

Component 3: Play Exploration

Christmas Term

Component 1:The Crucible.

Developing written responses

Component 2: Continued exploration of stimuli and style

Component 1: The Crucible developing written responses

Component 3: Rehearsal of selected extracts

Winter Term

Component 1: Refining written responses

Component 2: Devising Project - development, structure

Component 1: The Crucible and Live Theatre Review developing written responses
Component 3: Rehearsal and refinement of selected extracts

Easter Term

Component 1: Refining written responses and timed answers

Component 2: Exam and accompanying coursework completed

Component 1:
The Crucible and Live Theatre Review developing written responses
Component 3:
Exam prep

Spring Term

Component 1: Timed responses acting on feedback DIRT.

Component 2: Final drafting of coursework.

Component 1: Exam prep

Summer Term

Component 1: Live Theatre review, viewing, and initial exploration

Component 3: Text workshops

Autumn Term

Component 1: Set Text A 'A Serant to two Masters' world of the play and run through development of written responses

Component 2: Devising exploration of practitioners and stimuli

Christmas Term

Component 1: Development and refinement of written responses

Component 2: Further exploration of Practitioners and Stimuli

Last 2 weeks of term enquiry and research into chosen practitioner and stimulus

Winter Term

Component 1: Writing under timed conditions focus on improvement

Component 2: Development and rehearsal of devised practical exam piece

Easter Term

Component 2: Working Notebook Component 3: Exploration of plays and practitioners.

Spring Term

Component 1: Set Text B-Yerma Social, Cultural and Historical context and page to stage

Component 3: Continued exploration of plays and practitioners

Summer Term

Component 1: Development of written responses

Component 3: Extract 1 and accompanying Reflective Report