Devising, acting, design, directing and production. Assessed through performance and the Individual Project, and used as evidence in the written paper.
These are the statements the Drama syllabus makes about Drama Practice and Performance. 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.
The Individual Project, and the standard of craft and justification it demands.
Building a role through objectives, action and physical life rather than through described emotion.
Collaborative devising from a stimulus, and the decisions that turn an idea into a performance.
Design as interpretation: how each design element makes an argument about the play.
Analysing a script for performance, including what the text leaves for the production to decide.
Vocal and physical technique, and how each serves meaning rather than display.
Improvisation as a devising method and as a performance form, and the discipline it requires.
The director's interpretation, and the production management that realises it.
How an ensemble negotiates creative decisions, and what makes collaboration productive or destructive.
The stages of rehearsal, and how a scene is built from the first read to performance.
The technical and organisational roles that make a production possible, and how they interact.
How the configuration of space and the presence of an audience change performance.
Turning a stimulus into dramatic action, and avoiding the trap of dramatising the idea rather than the conflict.
Performance made for children and young people, and how it differs in form and address.
Performance outside the theatre building, where place and audience movement are part of the dramaturgy.
HSC Drama - Written Paper Shape is 40 marks in 90 minutes. Questions on Drama Practice and Performance 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.
Drama Practice and Performance is module 3 of 3 in Drama. 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.