Year 10 Drama

LENGTH: One semester or full year

KEY CONTACT: Suriya Down

COURSE CONTENT:
Building from Year 9 Drama, students continue to refine their body and voice skills to demonstrate character and express emotion. Students will study the performance theories of dramatic practitioners Stanislavski and Shakespeare, and devise their own work, as well as perform in a whole-class group production of a chosen text in either on on-stage or off-stage role which is presented during daytime and evening performance. Students will be required to view a live theatre performance to develop their critical analysis skills and work with external theatre professionals to develop their dramatic thinking. Students perform for an audience during this course.

Students analyse the elements of drama and evaluate meaning and aesthetic effect in drama they view and make. They use their experiences of drama from different cultures, places and times to evaluate drama from different viewpoints.

Students develop and sustain different roles and characters for given circumstances and intentions. They collaborate with others to plan, rehearse and perform devised and scripted drama in different forms, styles and performance spaces to engage audiences. They refine performance and expressive skills in voice and movement to convey dramatic action.

ASSESSMENT:
Students are assessed based on the concepts, capabilities and dispositions of the South Australian curriculum. Assessment tasks are predominately practical with a smaller theory component. Students perform for an audience as part of their assessment.

SUBJECT COSTS: Nil