Drama and Theatre Studies

Assessment

Component 1: Devising (40% - non-examined assessment) • Students devise and perform an original piece of theatre using one key extract from a performance text and a theatre practitioner as stimuli. • Students write a 2,500-3,000 word portfolio, which analyses and evaluates the process. Component 2: Text in Performance (20% - non-examined assessment) • Students work in a group to produce a performance/design realisation of one key extract from a performance text. • Students also perform a monologue or duologue performance/design realisation from one key extract from a different performance text. • Performances are marked by a visiting external examiner. Component 3: Theatre Makers in Practice (40% - 2 ½ hour written exam) This is a written paper in the summer term of the Upper Sixth, comprising: • Section A: Live Theatre Evaluation: Students answer one extended response question from a choice of two requiring them to analyse and evaluate a live theatre performance they have seen in light of a given statement. • Section B: Page to Stage: Realising a Performance Text: Students answer two extended response questions based on an unseen extract from the performance text they have studied. Students will demonstrate how they, as theatre makers, intend to realise the extract in performance from the perspective of a performer and a designer. • Section C: Interpreting a Performance Text: Students will answer one extended response question from a choice of two based on an unseen named section from their chosen performance text. Students will demonstrate how their re-imagined production concept will communicate ideas to a contemporary audience, drawing on a theatre practitioner and an awareness of the original performance conditions of the text.