Students will be assessed on either acting or design and will participate in the creation, development, and performance of a piece of theatre, this will be based on a reinterpretation of an extract of text chosen from a list supplied by Eduqas.
Drama is life with the dull parts left out.
Choose A Level Drama and Theatre at St Edmund’s College, and develop and channel your creativity to become a confident storyteller and communicator.
Our approach to drama and theatre studies draws on the natural human interest in storytelling and we use drama to explore the world around us. Through this course you will reflect on current events and cultural heritage and discover new, inspiring ways to represent the issues that connect us all.
Enrichment opportunities at St Ed’s include:
- Theatre visits
- A wide range of performance opportunities
- Professional workshops
- Audition coaching
- Opportunity to audition for the National Student Drama Festival and the National Theatre Connections Festival
- A full co-currcular programme for drama and musical theatre
| Head of Department | Mrs N Schiff |
| Syllabus | Eduqas |
Course structure
This course is divided into three components:
- Theatre workshop
- Text in action
- Text in performance
Assessment for all three components is completed at the end of Rhetoric II (Year 13).
Theatre workshop assessment
Text in action assessment
Students will be assessed on either acting or design and will participate in the creation, development, and performance of two pieces of theatre based on a stimulus supplied by Eduqas:
- A devised piece using the techniques and working methods of either an influential theatre practitioner or a recognised theatre company (a different practitioner or company to that chosen for component 1)
- An extract from a text in a different style chosen by the student.
Students that choose acting, will perform live for the visiting examiner.
Students that choose design must give a 5-10 minute presentation of their design to the examiner.
All students will then produce a process and evaluation report within one week of completion of the practical work.
Text in performance assessment
Written examination with sections A and B:
Students will answer two questions based upon two different texts, one written pre-1956 and one written post-1956.
Clean copies (no annotations) of the two complete texts must be taken into the examination.
Section C
A question based upon a specified extract from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, adapted by Simon Stephens.
Details of the 10 – 15-minute extract will be released during the first week of March, in the year which the examination is to be taken.
Set texts and practitioners
During the course students will study a range of different theatre practitioners and play texts. Students will explore how the social, historical, cultural and political climate influences theatre.
Most of all, we will consider the question: why this play? Why now? Why this audience?
Set texts and practitioners that may be explored include: