DRAMA
Devising Drama
Performance Project
DEVISING DRAMA
Semester 1
Students will gain essential skills and knowledge for developing their dramatic skills. They will learn how to devise a variety of effective and entertaining Drama skits in groups using play-making techniques. The Semester will cover a variety of units such as Voice Production, where the students will learn how to effectively project their voices & develop their ability to use verbal dynamics to convey story and meaning. The students will then learn to devise their own Drama work according to both prepared and spontaneous improvisation models, distinguishing between the different styles of Drama within their group Drama presentations.
PERFORMANCE PROJECT
Semester 2
Students engage with different styles of theatre. They use skills and techniques performing characters and stories authentically based on the theatrical conventions of the given theatre style. They devise work in groups based on the theatrical conventions of Melodrama, Commedia Dell Arte, Elizabethan Theatre and Eclectic Theatre.