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 |
| Time | Overview | Style of Theatre | Assessment |
1.
| Introduction to Drama Explores how the Elements of Drama are used to create theatre, and examines historical contexts of theatrical tradition | 8 weeks | In 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
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| 2. | Our Stories Focuses on how stories can help us to understand the experiences of others | 10 weeks | Students examine the real-life stories that define our humanity as a basis for the creation of drama. | - Storytelling
- Documentary styles of Theatre
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3.
| Our Country Explores how our country and its people have been portrayed in a range of theatrical styles | 12 Weeks | Students 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
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Senior Drama
| Unit |
| Time | Overview | Style of Theatre | Assessment |
1.
| Share Explores how drama promotes shared understanding of the human experience. | 15 weeks | In 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
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| 2. | Reflect Explores how drama is shaped to reflect lived experience. | 15 weeks | Throughout 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
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| 3. | Challenge Focuses on how drama challenges our understanding of humanity. | 17 weeks | During 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
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| 4. | Transform Focuses on how dramatic practice can be transformed. | 17 weeks | This 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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