Theatre in Practice
How a production is made from first read to closing night, and who does what.
- Production roles and responsibilities
- Production timelines
- Auditions and casting
NSW Drama Stage 5 (Year 10) - theatre in practice; directing and design; the major performance project - expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Drama Year 10” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
How a production is made from first read to closing night, and who does what.
Making interpretive decisions and communicating them to a company.
A sustained piece of theatre made and performed to a public standard.
A Drama Year 10 paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| analyse | Short answer | 3–4 |
| describe | Short answer | 2–3 |
| design | Short answer | 3–5 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 4–6 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| interpret | Multiple choice | 1 |
Year 10 Assessment Task Shape — 50 marks, 75 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.