Drama and Theatre Studies

Course summary

Drama and Theatre provides students with the opportunity to work as either performers and/or designers on three different performances. It encourages students to make connections between dramatic theory and their own practice. Students explore the work of two key theatre practitioners and apply their research to their own creative output. Students also learn about the processes and practices involved in interpreting and performing theatre by watching and analysing live theatre. In Component 1, students reinterpret a text to create a piece of theatre in the style of a key practitioner. For Component 2, students engage with a stimulus to create two pieces of theatre; one an interpretation of a text of their own choice, the other a devised piece. In Component 3, students study two complete performance texts and one extract from a third.