Drama and Theatre Studies

Assessment

Component 1 Written Paper 40% 180 mins - Section A Set text 1: Drama through the Ages studying “Antigone” and Greek Theatre - Section B Set text 2: 20th & 21st Century Theatre studying Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” - Section C Live Theatre production - Students will need to attend all arranged theatre visits to enable them to review live theatre for this section. Component 2 Practical NEA 30% Creating Original Drama: devising - Students will be required to produce an individual working notebook. - Students will be required to contribute to a final devised, group performance. Component 3 Practical NEA 30% Making Theatre: scripted performance - Students must practically explore (workshop) and interpret three key extracts, each from a different play. - Students must then perform one of the extracts for assessment by a visiting examiner (evening event). - Students must write a reflective report on the creative process of exploring the extracts and an evaluation of the extract for performance.