Drama and Theatre Studies

Course summary

This is an exciting, practical course that marries both performance work and rigorous academic study. Whether you want to perform in productions or design them, you need to be a good team worker and have the confidence to experiment independently with your ideas. The new linear A Level course will test your ability to produce creative, high-quality performance work, as well as enable you to immerse yourself in the study of practitioners, styles and genres of performance throughout history through set texts. This course will give you great transferable skills that will enable you to sell yourself effectively at interviews, have confidence in front of an audience and learn teamwork, project management and analysis skills. The lessons will be a mixture of practical exploration, research and written analysis. Regular theatre visits are also an obligatory part of the course. Compulsory after-school rehearsals and workshops with guest professionals are a feature of this course, and students need to make this commitment. Students will also need to develop a specific way of approaching the written element of this examination as it differs from English Literature.