Course Description

Drama provides students with the opportunity to explore and create through performance and design. Students are introduced to new theatrical forms and styles and provided the freedom to participate as actors as well as directors and designers of lighting, sound, set and costume. Students will continue to build and expand their dramatic knowledge and demonstrate skills through production and performance as well as honing transferable skills such as creative problem solving, collaboration, innovation, flexibility, social skills, self-regulation and leadership.
Students learn and use contemporary processes, including improvisation and
approaches to rehearsal, to select and shape the elements of drama for both devised
and scripted works.
The focus of the Semester 1 unit is Representational Theatre. Students study Realism and Australian Theatre and explore the practices of Konstantin Stanislavski.
In Semester 2 students turn their attention to Presentational Theatre. They explore Theatre of Cruelty and Theatre of the Absurd as well as the theories and practices of Antonin Artaud and Jerzy Grotowski.
In both semesters, students will create performances at a classroom level with opportunities to perform to larger external audiences at different venues, if they choose to.
Students will also have the opportunity to learn more about and experiment with various design roles and associated technologies such as lighting, sound, set and costume, as well as the role of the director.