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.

View Drama resources on ATARMAXXING ↗

Topics in the resource inventory

• Character, role, relationships and situation: motivation, subtext, status and given circumstances
• Focus, tension, space, time, language, symbol, audience, mood and atmosphere
• The ten aspects of voice and how to manipulate them for dramatic meaning
• The nine aspects of movement, proxemics and blocking
• Director's vision, themes and issues, improvisation, and rehearsal versus performance
• Historical, social and cultural context, character values and point of view
• Realism and Non-realism; representational and presentational style
• Psychological approaches: Uta Hagen, Robert Cohen, David Mamet, Maria Knebel and Sharon Marie Carnicke
• Physical approaches: Anne Bogart and Tina Landau (Viewpoints) and Rudolf Laban
• Antonin Artaud, Jerzy Grotowski and Steven Berkoff
• Frantic Assembly, Jacques Lecoq and Complicité
• Theatre spaces, site-specific and promenade spaces, actor-audience interaction and transitions
• Design language: the five principles and the elements of design
• Costume and set design: vision, choices and technologies
• Lighting and sound design: focus, mood, transitions and multimedia
• Reading an unseen drama text and answering Section One in role
• Annotated diagrams and tables, command words and the marking-key levels
• Choosing questions and structuring four-part extended answers without preamble
• Preparing an Australian set text for actor, director and designer questions
• Preparing a World set text for actor, director and designer questions