Year 12 Drama

Course Description:  The Level 2 course requires students to develop more depth and decision making skills in the creation of their work. A range of performance opportunities exist - duologues, small group work and a major performance. Other topics explored include theatre studies, script writing and directing.  Students continue developing an understanding of Stanislavski’s Method Acting (Realism), Elizabethan Theatre and/or Commedia Dell’arte, Physical Theatre and Contemporary New Zealand Theatre.

 Topics include:  

• Perform a substantial acting role in a scripted production:  Develop and sustain character in a class play  - 5 credits 
• Apply drama techniques in a scripted context:  Students select and justify drama techniques (voice, body, movement, use of space) in a duo or group performance - 4 credits 
• Use complex performance skills associated with a drama/theatre form:  Identify and select the key features of Commedia Dell’arte (mask work) or Elizabethan Theatre (Shakespeare) and perform a scene in a small group. - 4 credits. 
• Devise and perform a drama to realise an intention: Revise elements, conventions and structures of theatre. Explore text, quotations and short stories as stimulus for devised theatre. Create original theatre in a group - 5 credits 

Assessment:  The bulk of the course is internally assessed with the option of participating in an external written exam.  Four internally assessed standards (17 credits) and one external (optional) standard - 4 credits 

 This course leads to: Level 3 Drama