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Drama
Year 7
“Cautionary Tales”
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Explore work by Victorian poet Heinrich Hoffman
Explore and create practical work in the style of physical theatre
Develop team work and leadership skills when devising in groups
Develop the imagination
Develop literacy skills when writing students’ own Cautionary Tale
Assessment of practical acting skills
“Darkwood Manor”
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Explore the idea of creating dramatic tension and suspense on stage, through devised work in the
style of non-naturalism
Work with “teacher in role” as a dark and suspicious character
Introduce the use of the explorative technique of “Hotseating”
Develop questioning and logic skills through discussion of the plot of Darkwood Manor
Establish ideas of dreams and nightmares, as a stimulus for performance and as a tool for how to
build tension on stage
Students create their own nightmare, selecting drama skills to represent the ideas discussed
Use mime techniques – students are in-role preparing for a night at Darkwood Manor
Consider what makes up a machine and how can we show this in performance – use physical
theatre to create a ghost catching machine
Introduce non-naturalistic theatre as a form
In groups – (A,B & C), explore a room in Darkwood Manor, Group C are ghosts
Develop a movement sequence, introduce concept of dramatic irony
Groups to create a scene about the story of the ghost of the Manor using non-naturalism
The ghost has been captured in the machine and tells their story – use of monologue, supported
by physical theatre
Drama through the ages
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Overview and understanding of the history and development of theatre, through practical
exploration
Explore Hotseating as a rehearsal technique through practical exploration
Explore Still image/tableau through practical exploration
Explore Thoughts in the head technique through practical exploration
Explore Soundscape technique through practical exploration
Consider Ritualism in history and how it is converted to primitive theatre
Explore Greek theatre including theatre buildings, playwrights and the use of mask and Greek
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Explore Commedia del Arte and the style of 16 Century Italian theatre
Explore Shakespearian theatre
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Explore 19 Century Melodrama
Explore physical theatre in present day theatre practitioners
Year 8
Studies of Naturalism and the practitioner Stanislavski
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Learn about the creation and development of naturalism as an acting style in theatre in the early
1900s and its historical development to present day
Explore and practice some of Stanislavski’s methods of rehearsal
Explore Hotseating as a rehearsal technique using the mining disaster of Aberfan as stimulus
Monologue writing – spoken word features, structure of a speech, improvising versus scripting
Rehearse monologues
Performances of monologues: each student to produce and perform a 2 minute speech,
assessment
Storytelling
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Explore storytelling techniques in theatre using freeze frames, narration and characterisation
Explore how to tell a story as actors, without words
Explore and Perform extracts from stories from around the world, exploring culture of others
Explore the use of soundscape, “Thoughts in the Head”, Still Image and Physical Theatre to
support storytelling tasks
Work effectively as a narrator
Use split stage to show different settings
Create characters using voice, face and body
Use masks to tell a traditional Chinese theatre tale
Conflict Resolution and Boal
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Consider the theme of conflict and how theatre is used as a political medium
Use still image and role play to explore an example of conflict and possible resolution
Devise a short scene that shows the best resolution to students’ conflict scenario
Research theatre practitioner Augusto Boal.
Augusto Boal role play
Image Theatre – group discussion – relevance to Boal
Research an international conflict and create theatre to explore the issues involved
Consider conflict in scripted drama: rehearse and perform duologues – The Virtuous Burglar, Split
down the Middle. Consider staging techniques for duologue work
Explore the idea of conflict through the genre of comedy
Explore the idea of conflict through the genre of tragedy
Year 9
Black Civil Rights
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Explore the causes and consequences of the American Civil War using frozen images and
spontaneous improvisation
Escaping Slavery and Lincoln's Role – using physical theatre to create dramatic tension and the
idea of being chased
Life on the battlefield – using split stage to perform duologues of letters to family
1960s Civil Rights – the life and speeches of Martin Luther King performed through physical
theatre
Study of poet Maya Angelou and exploration of performance poetry
Hard to Swallow
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Introduction to the disease Anorexia, through the play Hard To Swallow by Mark Wheeler.
Using mime to explore key scenes from the text
Studies of key scenes from the play and use of exercises by key practitioners to support the
studies.
Considering staging – using Split stage to present multiple settings
Working independently on a chosen scene, in the style of GCSE preparation.
Performance of prepared scenes, lines learned – work is assessed at GCSE level.
Duologues
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Revision of the main methods of Stanislavski techniques
Use of the techniques of “hotseating”, improvisation and visual stimulus to create duologues.
Using photographs, news reports and paintings as stimulus for writing
Creating duologues. Practise making scenes through improvisation and scripted work
Independent rehearsals of duologues – all lines must be learned and blocked for formal
assessment. Naturalism is the style so props and costumes are encouraged.
Independent rehearsal on duologues
Delivery of performances – practice evaluating each other’s work using GCSE criteria
Acting Challenges
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Playing Children – exploring the text of Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter
Using non naturalism to create stereotypes, a day in an office, using ritualism and chorus work
Mask work: learn the skills of clocking, mime sequences and story telling
Considering scripted work: exploring extracts of key scenes of classic plays, rehearsing and
learning lines, performance and evaluation of work using GCSE criteria
Feminism
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Devise a piece of performance theatre as part of a group
Explore and understand some aspects of the history of feminism. 2 minute performance piece
The entry of women in the workplace, due to WW1, 2 minute piece
Clip on the film ‘Made in Dagenham’, female street artists – 2 minute piece
Feminism today, Beyonce, speech by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie. Devise project, rehearse and
perform
GCSE Scripted Project
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Introduce a stimulus and consider the needs of devised group work
Explore contextual needs of theatre work
Consider characterisations and employ exercises by Peter Brooke
Consider vocal delivery on stage and practise exercises to support vocal delivery
Consider staging choices including traverse, in the round and proscenium arch
Independent rehearsal, create and rehearse prepared pieces
Performances – offer formal assessment using GCSE criteria