We want students to have an inspiring experience of A Level Drama and Theatre. This course combines practical creativity with academic research and theoretical understanding. Students learn through experience, seeing and making theatre for a live critical audience. Students are introduced to a wide range of theatrical styles and contexts throughout the course as they explore theatre practically and devise their own original, challenging and often provocative theatre. Students will experience a range of critical perspectives throughout the course as actors, directors, writers, critics and academic researchers. Theatre trips take place up to twice per year. Through these experiences, students gain many valuable skills, both theatrical and transferable, to expand their horizons. Students of Edexcel Drama and Theatre develop skills that are not just essential for Drama but apply to a wide range of higher education subjects and professions. This specification refines students’ collaborative skills and their approach to independent research as well as their analytical and creative thinking. Students grow in confidence and become more critically discerning as they successfully realise their own ideas. They learn to evaluate objectively and develop a sound appreciation of the influences that cultural and social contexts have on creative decision-making. Whatever the future holds, students of A Level Drama and Theatre emerge with a toolkit of transferable skills preparing them for their next steps.
Offers of places at 16+ are conditional on applicants achieving our required grades at GCSE, IB MYP or the equivalent foreign examinations. We ask for three 7 grades (or grade A) and above and another three 6 grades (or grade B) and above at GCSE or for IB MYP we require three 6 grades and three 5 grades. These should include English and mathematics and, where applicable, the subjects chosen for IB Higher Level or A-Level. We allocate places on academic merit, considered alongside the potential to contribute to our co-curricular programme. We recommend at least a Grade 6 at I/GCSE in any subject taken at IB Higher Level or A-level; students will not normally be allowed to pursue a subject in which they have attained less than a Grade 5.
Component 1: Devising - 40% of A Level • Devise an original performance piece • Use a performance text and a theatre practitioner as stimuli • Produce a Research and Development Portfolio - 60 marks • Stage the Devised Performance - 20 marks Component 2: Text in Performance - 20% of A Level • Produce a group performance/design realisation from a performance text - 36 marks • Perform a monologue or duologue performance/design realisation from a different performance text - 24 marks Component 3: Theatre Makers in Practice - 40% of A Level Written paper: 2hours 30 minutes • Section A: Live Theatre Evaluation - 20 marks Students analyse and evaluate a live theatre performance they have seen. Students are allowed to bring in theatre evaluation notes of up to a maximum of 500 words. • Section B: Page to Stage: Realising a Performance Text - 36 marks Students answer two 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 - 24 marks Students will demonstrate how their production concept will communicate ideas to a contemporary audience. Students will also need to outline how the work of their chosen theatre practitioner has influenced their overall production concept and demonstrate an awareness of the performance text in its original performance conditions.
About Education Provider
| Region | West Midlands |
| Local Authority | Warwickshire |
| Ofsted Rating | |
| Gender Type | Co-Educational |
| ISI Report | View Report |
| Boarding Fee | £45,990 |
| Sixth Form Fee | £28,890 |
| Address | The Bursary, 10 Little Church Street, Rugby, CV21 3AW |
We want students to have an inspiring experience of A Level Drama and Theatre. This course combines practical creativity with academic research and theoretical understanding. Students learn through experience, seeing and making theatre for a live critical audience. Students are introduced to a wide range of theatrical styles and contexts throughout the course as they explore theatre practically and devise their own original, challenging and often provocative theatre. Students will experience a range of critical perspectives throughout the course as actors, directors, writers, critics and academic researchers. Theatre trips take place up to twice per year. Through these experiences, students gain many valuable skills, both theatrical and transferable, to expand their horizons. Students of Edexcel Drama and Theatre develop skills that are not just essential for Drama but apply to a wide range of higher education subjects and professions. This specification refines students’ collaborative skills and their approach to independent research as well as their analytical and creative thinking. Students grow in confidence and become more critically discerning as they successfully realise their own ideas. They learn to evaluate objectively and develop a sound appreciation of the influences that cultural and social contexts have on creative decision-making. Whatever the future holds, students of A Level Drama and Theatre emerge with a toolkit of transferable skills preparing them for their next steps.
Offers of places at 16+ are conditional on applicants achieving our required grades at GCSE, IB MYP or the equivalent foreign examinations. We ask for three 7 grades (or grade A) and above and another three 6 grades (or grade B) and above at GCSE or for IB MYP we require three 6 grades and three 5 grades. These should include English and mathematics and, where applicable, the subjects chosen for IB Higher Level or A-Level. We allocate places on academic merit, considered alongside the potential to contribute to our co-curricular programme. We recommend at least a Grade 6 at I/GCSE in any subject taken at IB Higher Level or A-level; students will not normally be allowed to pursue a subject in which they have attained less than a Grade 5.
Component 1: Devising - 40% of A Level • Devise an original performance piece • Use a performance text and a theatre practitioner as stimuli • Produce a Research and Development Portfolio - 60 marks • Stage the Devised Performance - 20 marks Component 2: Text in Performance - 20% of A Level • Produce a group performance/design realisation from a performance text - 36 marks • Perform a monologue or duologue performance/design realisation from a different performance text - 24 marks Component 3: Theatre Makers in Practice - 40% of A Level Written paper: 2hours 30 minutes • Section A: Live Theatre Evaluation - 20 marks Students analyse and evaluate a live theatre performance they have seen. Students are allowed to bring in theatre evaluation notes of up to a maximum of 500 words. • Section B: Page to Stage: Realising a Performance Text - 36 marks Students answer two 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 - 24 marks Students will demonstrate how their production concept will communicate ideas to a contemporary audience. Students will also need to outline how the work of their chosen theatre practitioner has influenced their overall production concept and demonstrate an awareness of the performance text in its original performance conditions.