Title: 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.

• Term 1 Prologue - 8 Weeks 
• Term 2 Exposition: Greek Chorus Meets Indigenous Australian Drama - 18 Weeks
• Term 3 Exposition: Greek Chorus Meets Indigenous Australian Drama 
• Term 4 Emotional Narrative: The Actor's Studio  - 12 Weeks

Units of work covered include:

• Ancient Greek Chorus
• Indigenous Drama
• Stanislavski's theory
• Australian Drama

More Information

  For more information on Senior Drama, click here.

Assessment

• Play Review (Term 2) DOWNLOAD
• Physical Theatre Performance (Term 1) DOWNLOAD
• Directing (Late Term 3) DOWNLOAD
• Scripted text Performance (Early term 4) DOWNLOAD
• Scripted text Performance (mid term 3) DOWNLOAD
• Essay Exam (Mid-Late Term 4) DOWNLOAD

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 A4 Visual Diary

Related Links

• Theatre History
• The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute
• Konstantin Stanislavski
• "Method" Acting Procedures
• Judith Chaffee's Commedia Website
• Commedia Dell'Arte
• La Commedia dell'Arte
• School of Arts and Sciences
• Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice
• Theatre Links
• Theatre History - The Chorus
• Ancient Greek Actors
• Ancient Greek Theatre