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The Arts - Drama

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Imagine. Create. Inspire.



Drama fosters creative and expressive communication. It interrogates the human experience by investigating, communicating and embodying stories, experiences, emotions and ideas that reflect the human experience. It engages students in imaginative meaning-making processes and involves them using a range of artistic skills as they make and respond to dramatic works.


At Aldridge:

Drama is a very interactive subject where students and staff participate in a range of activities and workshops that continuously develop confidence and ability. Our classrooms are a safe and supportive space where students can be themselves and achieve their goals. 


Why Study Drama?

Drama skills are life skills! Students who study Drama are more socially aware and more able to engage in and navigate skills like: 

  • teamwork

  • cooperation

  • listening

  • confidence and self-esteem

  • physical fitness and endurance

  • time management

  • organisation

  • communication

  • creativity and innovation

  • attention to detail

  • discipline 


Pathways:

The confidence and skills gained in Drama can contribute to many career paths like:

  • arts admiration

  • management

  • communication

  • actor

  • barrister

  • journalist

  • choreographer

  • cinematographer

  • education

  • events planning

  • public relations

  • science and technology 



Units of Study:

Year 10

Unit
TimeOverviewStyle of TheatreAssessment
1.

Introduction to Drama

Explores how the Elements of Drama  are used to create theatre, and examines historical contexts of theatrical tradition

8 weeksIn this unit, students focus on the fundamentals of Drama:  how to create theatre that entertains and engages an audience.
  • Improvisation
  • Process Drama
  • Commedia Dell'arte
  • Melodrama
  • Performance – published text

 

2.

Our Stories

Focuses on how stories can help us to understand the experiences of others

10 weeksStudents examine the real-life stories that define our humanity as a basis for the creation of drama.
  • Storytelling
  • Documentary styles of Theatre
  • Concept

 

3.

Our Country

Explores how our country and its people have been portrayed in a range of theatrical styles

 

12 WeeksStudents explore a range of theatrical styles that distil and reflect the Australian experience
  • Realism
  • Magical Realism
  • Australian Gothic
  • Director's Pitch
  • Internal Exam: Extended Response

 

Senior Drama

Unit
TimeOverviewStyle of TheatreAssessment
1.

Share

Explores how drama promotes shared understanding of the human experience.

15 weeksIn this unit, students revise the fundamentals of Drama and how it is created to celebrate, document, empower and share understanding of the human experience.
  • Improvisation
  • Process Drama
  • Verbatim

     
  • Performance – Published Text
  • Project –    Dramatic Concept
2.

Reflect

Explores how drama is shaped to reflect lived experience.

15 weeksThroughout this unit, students engage with the purpose of theatre in informing and challenging audiences, understanding and empathising with the truth of others' experiences.
  • Realism
  • Magical Realism
  • Gothic Theatre
  • Practice-Led Project – Directorial Vision and Performance
  • Internal Exam – Extended Response
3.

Challenge

Focuses on how drama challenges our understanding of humanity.

17 weeksDuring this Year 12 unit, students engage with the purposed of educating, challenging, empowering and informing audiences through their theatre experience. 
  • Theatre of the Absurd
  • Epic Theatre
  • Physical Theatre
  • Comedy
  • Performance – Published Text
  • Project –    Dramatic Concept
4.

Transform

Focuses on how dramatic practice can be transformed.

17 weeksThis final unit involves students re-imagining, adapting and transforming traditional texts in an expression of their emerging artistic voice that addresses the needs of our current audience. 
  • Elizabethan Theatre
  • Greek Theatre
  • Practice-Led Project – Directorial Vision and Performance
  • External Exam – Extended Response

 





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Last reviewed 04 February 2022
Last updated 04 February 2022