Year Seven

Autumn

Induction: Drama skills:
Laying the foundations
Style and history: Pantomime
Historical context of drama

Spring

‘Shrek’ – Live Theatre Review: Exploring modern popular theatre and roles in the industry.
Page to Stage: ‘Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations’ Introduction to text in performance and comic style.

Summer

Performance Style: Commedia dell’ Arte
Exploration of historical style.
Devising: The Manor House
A collaborative unit that draws on skills previously used with more independent application.

Year Eight

Autumn

Exploring Play Texts: ‘The Terrible Fate of Humpty Dumpty’:
Theatre for change and issue-based drama; focus on paired and solo moments, looking at monologue and direct address.
Devising: FAME
Devising with non-naturalistic elements and stimuli

Spring

Style and Context: Melodrama
Appreciation of the historical context of drama.
Greenall and Greynall:
Structure & form; Creation of characters

Summer

Exploration of a Play Text: ‘Listen to Your Parents’
Looking at modern theatre practitioner – Benjamin Zephaniah
Teentalk:
Characterisation and plot development

Year Nine

Autumn

Text in Performance: ‘Too Much Punch for Judy’
Exploring the relationship between theatre for entertainment and theatre in education.

Spring

Devising from Stimuli: War and Conflict

Summer

Exploration and Theatre Makers ‘Blood Brothers’:
Study of a text in detail looking at the roles of actor, director and designer.
Performance and Evaluation ‘Blood Brothers’

Year Ten

Autumn

Induction: Drama skills, ‘Stealing’, ‘Noughts and Crosses’, and ‘Mask’.
‘An Inspector Calls’ acting and directing; introduction to the writer’s intentions, past productions and characterisation.

Spring

‘Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-time’: Practitioners and style Berkoff, Stanislavski and Brecht:
develop awareness of the three production roles: acting, directing & design and how they work together to create performance for an audience.
Devising: explore a range of stimuli, chose a minimum of two & begin developing a devised piece.

Summer

Review of Live Theatre
Live theatre performance and workshop.
Writing a review.
‘An Inspector Calls’ – design elements:
interpreting the text as a director, performer and designer.

Year Eleven

Autumn

Styles and Genre. Monos, Duos and Groups: explore complex interrelationships between the three elements & how they influence each other.
‘The Play That Goes Wrong’
Students experience a piece of live theatre & develop their analysis & evaluation skills.

Spring

Practical Prep, Portfolio and Performance:
Explore chosen text & select extracts for performance.
Develop performances or designs for chosen extracts.
The performances /design realisations for the pieces are finalised and performed.

Summer

Set text: ‘An Inspector Calls’
Revision and Exams