Academy Life
Drama
Our Vision:
Providing all students with inspiring, new opportunities so that they leave our studios enriched, confident and critical with a passion for performance.
Careers:
GCSE Drama is not just about acting and performance. The course covers a plethora of transferable skills that will be useful throughout life: team-work skills, communication skills, presentations, public speaking, leadership skills, problem solving, time management, organisation, initiative, creativity and the ability to work to a strict deadline.
Career paths include:
- Actor/Actress
- Director (Theatre/Film)
- Playwright
- Screenplay writer
- Teacher
- Journalist
- Stage Manager
- Drama Therapist
- Costume Designer
- Lighting Technician
- Radio Presenter
- Film/Television Crew
Curriculum Map for Year 7 – 11
Extra-Curricular:
- Year 11 Coursework and Revision Sessions: Wednesdays 3pm – 4.15pm
- Q&A opportunities for GCSE Students: 1st and 2nd Break Times [book in with Miss Love]
- DANCE CLUB – Tuesdays 3pm – 4.15pm
- DRAMA CLUB – Thursdays 3pm – 4.15pm
- Assembly Rehearsals [selected dates only] – 8.30am – 9.05am
Recommended Plays to Read:
- Blood Brothers – Willy Russell [studied text for GCSE Drama]
- Our Day Out – Willy Russell
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Simon Stephens
- Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
- Macbeth – William Shakespeare
- War Horse – Nick Stafford
- Noughts & Crosses – Dominic Cooke
- The Crucible – Arthur Miller
- Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
- Bouncers – John Godber
- Teechers – John Godber
- Shakers – John Godber
- Blood Wedding – Federico Garcia Lorca
- The House of Bernarda Alba – Federico Garcia Lorca
- Yerma – Federico Garcia Lorca
- Caucasian Chalk Circle – Bertold Brecht
- The Trojan Women – Euripides
- Metamorphoses – Mary Zimmerman
- DNA – Dennis Kelly
- Love and Money – Dennis Kelly [KS4 only]
- Five Kinds of Silence – Shelagh Stephenson [KS4 only]
- The Pillowman – Martin McDonagh [KS4 only]
