Albany Senior High School/Coursebook/1DRA

What is this course about?
Performances will include improvisations, extracts from plays, devised drama and staging a performance evening for an outside audience in our newly built performance hall. Each assessment has a small written component that must be completed to achieve the standard. You will explore the use of movement, voice, scripted drama, techniques, elements, conventions, and different forms of theatre, whilst having the chance to gain skills in the technical and production aspects of drama and performance.

What will I learn?
You will learn different styles of drama and theatre performance and how to use acting techniques in order to convey your own ideas or the scripted ideas of a playwright to an audience through movement, gesture, voice and use of space.

What sorts of things will I do?
You will take part in group performances that explore various types of drama and theatre such as improvisation, devised theatre, scripted theatre, performance in the style of a particular period or genre. You will also study the techniques that are used in these aspects of drama.