Australian plays and companies, including Indigenous performance, studied through both text and production.
These are the statements the Drama syllabus makes about Australian Drama and Theatre. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Contemporary Australian plays and the companies that stage them, and what the work says about the national imagination.
Indigenous performance practice, its relationship to Country and community, and the protocols that govern its representation.
How Australian theatre developed its own voice, and the tensions between imported tradition and local subject matter.
Writing about a production as a production: direction, design, performance and the choices that produced the experience.
The concerns and dramatic methods of significant contemporary Australian writers.
The companies producing Indigenous work, and the consultation and permission processes that shape it.
Theatre made from testimony and record, and the ethical questions it raises about whose words are used.
HSC Drama - Written Paper Shape is 40 marks in 90 minutes. Questions on Australian Drama and Theatre are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Drama uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Australian Drama and Theatre opens the Drama course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Drama dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.