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Unit 2: AS Theatre Text in Performance
Content summary:
You will have the chance to demonstrate your skills in a performance environment, as actor,
technician or designer. The first section requires students to offer either a monologue or duologue;
this is chosen by the student with advice from teachers. The second section requires students to
contribute to a performance of a professionally published play by a known writer. The play is chosen
by teachers, with input from students. The module is externally examined.
Unit 3: A2 Exploration of Dramatic Performance
Content summary:
This unit requires the creation of a unique and original piece of devised theatre. The knowledge and
understanding gained in the AS units can now be applied to a created production. All elements of this
unit are internally assessed and externally moderated.
A2 Unit 4: Theatre Text in Context
Content summary:
This externally examined written unit requires the detailed study of one set play text and one
prescribed historical period of theatrical development. This unit will be externally set and assessed in
the form of a 2 hour and 30 minute written paper in three sections.
Extra-Curricular
Students have the opportunity to audition for the Senior Production in December. Recent productions
have included Guys and Dolls, The Crucible, West Side Story and Ibsen‟s Pillars of the Community.
Past AS students have led entries into the National Youth Shakespeare festival, forming their own
theatre company, and in the summer of 2009 a group of students took a production to the Edinburgh
Fringe Festival. Visiting groups and individuals give talks and lead workshops to extend students‟
knowledge and skills. There will also be an opportunity to show your practical exam pieces to a wider
audience in the Lent term.
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