Drama and Theatre Studies

Course summary

Students can progress from this qualification to: ● Drama schools, university courses that relate directly to drama and theatre as well as university courses that will benefit from the skills acquired from this GCE, for example law, human resources, people management ● Employment where people skills are essential, for example management, retail, nursing, industry and business environments as well as employment where time management, confidence, the ability to work collaboratively and to meet deadlines are desirable. 30 % of A-level Students must acquire, develop and apply skills in: ● forming critical judgements ● responding to texts imaginatively ● practically exploring the use of voice, movement, staging and characterization ● practically exploring ways in which the ideas of the director & designers are interpreted in performance ● the use of an appropriate subject-specific terminology ● analyzing the ways in which different performance and production elements are brought together to create theatre ● applying practitioner methodology to their own dramatic interpretations ● using research to develop ideas in a variety of contexts.