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A-Level Drama and Theatre (AQA 7262), studied from the perspectives of performer, designer and director.
Overview
A-Level Drama and Theatre (AQA 7262), studied from the perspectives of performer, designer and director.
Complete topic map
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The written exam (open book), Creating Original Drama and Making Theatre, and the roles of performer, designer and director.
The three perspectives applied throughout, with designer disciplines spanning lighting, sound, set, costume and puppets.
Practitioners such as Stanislavski, Brecht, Artaud, Berkoff, Grotowski, Boal and Meyerhold, and companies such as Complicite and Frantic Assembly.
Naturalism, epic and political theatre, theatre of cruelty, physical and devised work, verbatim, immersive theatre and expressionism.
One pre-1956 set play studied from at least two of the roles of performer, designer and director.
One modern set play studied from all three roles of performer, designer and director.
Developing a directorial concept, characterisation and design realisation, turning theory into practice.
Analysing and evaluating a live production: how meaning was communicated and how far the team's aims were met.
How each design element creates atmosphere, meaning and interpretation.
Creating from a stimulus through idea development, research, exploration and rehearsal, collaboration and refinement.
Applying one practitioner's methodology to the devised piece.
Documenting the devising process: research, decisions, development and evaluation of one's own contribution.
The final group devised piece, performed, directed or realised as design.
Practical exploration of three extracts from different plays, leading to a performance or realised design of one.
Evidencing a practitioner's methodology in the realised extract, with the accompanying reflective report.
Where this subject applies
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AS-Level
Advanced Subsidiary — the first year of A-Level study (standalone or first half of the full A-Level).
A-Level (A2)
The full Advanced Level — AS content plus the second-year A2 content.
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