Title: Year 12 Drama
Pre-requisites: Year 11 Drama 
Coordinator: Ms Sue Lonsdale

Drama is one of the oldest art forms known and its collaborative nature as an art form provides students with opportunities to learn to manage the processes of drama and the interpersonal and intra-personal skills required to work effectively, both individually and in groups.  Such skills are essential to give students, in a changing society, a critically active orientation necessary to play a full part in their own culture, the culture of others and the world of work.

Drama at Aspley State High School is an Authority subject and aims:

• to develop knowledge and understanding of drama across a variety of forms and contexts
• to enable students to explore the links between their own and others’ creativity and culture               
• to assist students to achieve their unique potential through the arts
• to empower students to critique and evaluate drama through their understanding of it
• to promote confidence and develop self-esteem working as an ensemble

Topics

Drama is experienced in the following dimensions:

• forming (structuring and devising processes to explore drama)
• presenting (performance based skills)
• responding (critically evaluating the work of others). 

NOTE:  The responding dimension contains lengthy critical evaluations, which may challenge some students.

Units of work covered include:

• Political Theatre -Brecht and Epic Theatre
• Theatre for Young People
• Student Choice

More Information

  For more information on Senior Drama, click here.  

Assessment

• The Caucasian Chalk Circle Performance - term one DOWNLOAD TASK
• One Man Show - end term one DOWNLOAD TASK
• Text Production - late term three
• Analytical Essay - late term three

Students who undertake Senior Drama will be required to attend rehearsals outside of class time.  Evening excursions will also be an important component of this course and a small cost will apply to attend these excursions.

Assignment guidelines

Please refer to the Assignment Guidelines on how to set out bibliographies and references.  

Resources

1 x A4 Visual Diary

Related Links

• Shakespeare's Tragedies
• Hamlet - Shakespeare's Tragedies
• Tragedy
• Bertolt Brecht: Proposals for an epic theatre
• Brecht's Epic Theatre
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
• Brecht - Biography
• Culture Catch - Brecht: The Caucasian Chalk Circle
• Guadian - The Caucasian Chalk Circle
• Marian St Theatre For Young People
• Green Thumb Theatre
• Calico Young People's Theatre
• The Australian Theatre for Young People
• Queensland Arts Council
• Coal Face Communications
• Essay On 'Waiting for Godot'
• Theatre of the Absurd
• Theatre of the Absurd
• Playwriting 101