Level 1 Drama
11DRA Course DescriptionTeacher in Charge: Mr D. Bowyer-Warner.
Recommended Prior LearningHave a genuine interest in drama and performance.
Be able to work collaboratively with various people.
Be willing to push yourself out of your comfort zone.
Be open to learning new things.
You will learn to:
Perform in the over the top acting style of Victorian Melodrama.
Perform a Magic and Circus Skills routine.
Build, create and perform a Puppet Theatre production.
Perform an interactive Zombie Horror performance called ‘Day of the Dead’.
Course Overview
Term 1
You will learn about the Victorian acting style known as melodrama. You will learn about and make use of the drama techniques voice, body, movement and space to explore acting as a melodrama character. For your assessment your will work in groups to perform a melodrama play called ‘The Black-Hearted Villain’.
Term 2
You will learn a series of magic tricks and circus skills. For your assessment, you will then work individually to put the magic tricks and circus skills you have learnt into a routine that you will perform to an audience.
Term 3
You will learn about the Victorian era pastime of Toy/Puppet Theatre. For your assessment, you will work in groups to build and devise a Toy theatre performance based on an ancient myths and legends story. You will perform your Toy theatre production to an audience.
Term 4
In this horror genre unit, you will learn about the history of Zombie horror motion pictures and their impact on modern pop culture. Using the drama techniques of voice, body, movement and space you will explore the ‘Zombie’ as a character which you will then integrate into a class interactive performance called ‘Day of the Dead’. For assessment, you will perform an extract scene from the Stage version of the movie ‘Night of the Living Dead’.
Assessment Information
- Melodrama group performance
- Magic/ Circus skills performance
- Toy/Puppet Theatre performance
- Scene extract performance 'Night of the Living Dead'