Students will practically explore a complete performance text in the light of a chosen practitioner in order to outline and justify their ideas for a production concept. They will need to develop an integral understanding of the text as a whole in order to interpret it for a contemporary audience. Students will assume the role of a director and will need to outline and justify how different theatre makers and theatrical elements work alongside the methodologies of a recognised theatre practitioner. Students will also research the original performance conditions and gain knowledge and understanding of the social, historical and cultural factors that are central to the context of the original text.
● 24 marks, assessing AO3.
● Students will answer one extended response question from a choice of two based on an unseen named section from their chosen performance text
● Students will demonstrate how their re-imagined production concept will communicate ideas to a contemporary audience.
● Students will also need to outline how the work of their chosen theatre practitioner has influenced their overall production concept and demonstrate an awareness of the performance text in its original performance conditions.
● Students must take in clean copies of their performance texts for this section, but no other printed materials.
Students will continue to explore their set text in light of the chosen practitioner and understand how to apply their production concept to the requirements of the exam.
● 24 marks, assessing AO3.
● Students will answer one extended response question from a choice of two based on an unseen named section from their chosen performance text
● Students will demonstrate how their re-imagined production concept will communicate ideas to a contemporary audience.
● Students will also need to outline how the work of their chosen theatre practitioner has influenced their overall production concept and demonstrate an awareness of the performance text in its original performance conditions.
● Students must take in clean copies of their performance texts for this section, but no other printed materials.
Students will develop and demonstrate theatre-making skills, appropriate to their role as a performer or designer. They will explore how they realise artistic intentions in performance with two areas of focus:-
1) A monologue or a duologue performance/design realisation from one key extract from one performance text.
2) A group performance/design realisation of one key extract from a different performance text.
AO2 is assessed.
● Externally assessed by a visiting examiner.
● Group performance/design realisation: worth 36 marks.
● Monologue or duologue/design realisation: worth 24 marks
Students will develop and refine their scripted pieces and perform them for a visiting examiner.
AO2 is assessed.
● Externally assessed by a visiting examiner.
● Group performance/design realisation: worth 36 marks.
● Monologue or duologue/design realisation: worth 24 marks
Students will revise all sections of the written exam. They will practice answering exam style questions under timed conditions and improve their exam technique.
Written examination: 2 hours 30 minutes
40% of the qualification 80 marks
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