Course topics.

Try this with Drama

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Section I decoded: one mandatory question that works for both Australian topics
• Dramatic Traditions in Australia (1): Norm and Ahmed and The Removalists - New Wave realism, mateship, power and violence
• Dramatic Traditions in Australia (2): The 7 Stages of Grieving and The Cake Man - First Nations voices, ritual and the episodic stage
• Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice (1): Fangirls and Single Asian Female - pop form, comedy and identity
• Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice (2): The Visitors and Neighbourhood Watch - history, memory and the theatrical imagination
• Staging Australian plays: space, stage image, character and audience as Section I evidence
• The Voice of Women in Theatre: comparing two female voices across contexts
• Approaches to Acting: from training exercises to the actor's presence on stage
• Verbatim Theatre: testimony, truth and dramatic shape, plus your original verbatim piece
• Black Comedy: humour, the controversial and catharsis across plays from different countries
• Multi-Discipline Theatre: collaboration, improvisation and the highly visual stage
• Significant Plays of the 20th Century: epic, absurd, documentary and realist landmarks
• Japanese Traditional and Contemporary Theatre: one traditional form and Tadashi Suzuki
• The vocabulary markers reward: elements of drama, elements of production and design
• Forms, performance styles, traditions and conventions: naming precisely what happens on stage
• Writing experiential learning: turning workshops into live theatrical moments
• Decoding NESA Drama questions: key terms, 'could be staged', 'influenced your understanding' and comparison
• Building a sustained, logical and cohesive 800-word response in 45 minutes
• Group Performance: the 30-mark devised piece, its three criteria and the 2025-2027 topic list
• Individual Project: the five areas, the 300-word rationale and the logbook