Drama and Theatre Studies

Assessment

There are similarities to the Edexcel GCSE Course, which we also follow. At A Level you explore Live Theatre, texts and practitioners in more depth and detail, and perform a longer extract of a play. Component 1: Devising (40 %) (Internally assessed) Students devise an original piece using one key extract from a performance text and a theatre practitioner as stimuli. They must produce a written portfolio of between 2,500 - 3,000 words and the devised performance/design realisation. Component 2: Text in Performance (20%) (Externally assessed by visiting examiner) Students present a group performance of one key extract from a performance text and a monologue or duologue performance from a key extract from a different performance text. Component 3: Theatre Makers in Practice (40%) (Externally assessed) Students will sit one 2-hour 30-minute exam. This will ask students to evaluate a live theatre performance they have seen, and explain how they would realise an extract from a performance text they have studied ("Page to Stage: Realising Performance Text)) and produce an extended answer on another performance text they have studied ("Interpreting a Performance Text"), where they explore their creative vision as a director.